Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company. He changed the automobile industry forever. His ideas on innovation, hard work, and perseverance still inspire people today. If you need motivation, business wisdom, or leadership advice, these 51 Henry Ford quotes will drive you to success!
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right”
Henry Ford
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Quotes On Success by Henry Ford
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
“The harder you work, the luckier you get.”
“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
Henry Ford On Innovation & Progress
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
“There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it.”
“Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
On Learning & Growth
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.”
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
“An idealist is a person who helps others to be prosperous.”
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
Henry Ford On Leadership & Teamwork
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
“To do more for the world than the world does for you—that is success.”
“Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us.”
“Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.”
Henry Ford On Money & Wealth
“Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them.”
“A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.”
“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.”
“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”
Henry Ford On Persistence & Determination
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve em.”
“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”
“You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”
“Do what’s right. Don’t worry if you make waves.”
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
Henry Ford On Thinking & Problem-Solving
“Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.”
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
“What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.”
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
On Service & Helping Others
“To teach that a dollar earned is better than five found is worth more than a college education.”
“Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.”
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.”
“The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.”
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.”
Henry Ford On Character & Personal Growth
“Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”
“As we serve our jobs we serve the world.”
“The greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.”
“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
“People do not follow titles, they follow courage.”
Henry Ford On The Future & Opportunities
“The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
“Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.”
“If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.”
“What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity—intellect and resources—to do something about them.”
“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.”
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