Henry Ford Quotes (112 Quotes)

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not a history.

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow you get somewhere.

Every time an Alfa goes by, I tip my hat.

Dont find a fault find a remedy.

It is easy to give alms it is better to work to make the giving of alms unnecessary

There is joy in work.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Why is it every time I ask for a pair of hands, they come with a brain attached

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Reading musses up my mind.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

We can get fuel from fruit, from that shrub by the roadside, or from apples, weeds, saw-dust - almost anything There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There is enough alcohol in one year's yield of a hectare of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the field for a hundred years. And it remains for someone to find out how this fuel can be produced commercially - better fuel at a cheaper price than we know now.

People can have the Model T in any colour so long as it's black.

Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Too many of us, when we accomplish what we set out to do, exclaim, 'See what I have done' instead of saying, ' See where I have been led.'

The question, 'Who ought to be boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child,

Business will get better, but we won't know when it does

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

There is one rule for industrialists and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

A set back is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

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.

Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

I'm looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.