Selected Quotes By Henry Ford
"To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form."
Henry Ford, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
Henry Ford, Success
"Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less."
Henry Ford, Management
"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."
Henry Ford, Management
"We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage."
Henry Ford, Management
"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one..."
Henry Ford, Management
"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader."
Henry Ford, Management
"Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do."
Henry Ford, Kindness
"Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us."
Henry Ford, Wealth
"Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work."
Henry Ford, Work
"The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already."
Henry Ford, Success
"everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
Henry Ford, Opportunities
"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
Henry Ford, Mistakes
"There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail."
Henry Ford, Success
"I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense."
Henry Ford, Intelligence/Wisdom
"None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible."
Henry Ford, Management
"success is 99% failure."
Henry Ford, Success
"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
Henry Ford, Success, Intelligence/Wisdom
"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."
Henry Ford, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian."
Henry Ford, Government
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
Henry Ford, Problems
"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
Henry Ford, Wealth, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice."
Henry Ford, Life
"If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got."
Henry Ford, Goals
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
Henry Ford, Management
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
Henry Ford, Management
"Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
Henry Ford, Management
"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."
Henry Ford, Management
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it."
Henry Ford, Intelligence/Wisdom, Work
"When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ...."
Henry Ford, Problems
"Vision without execution is just hallucination."
Henry Ford, Goals
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
Henry Ford, Mistakes
"Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain."
Henry Ford, Management
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
Henry Ford, Friendship
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
Henry Ford, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."