Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
Henry Ford developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford to buy. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world.
Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation and arranged for his family to control the company permanently.
Ford was also widely known for his pacifism during the first years of World War I, and also for being the publisher of antisemitic texts such as the book The International Jew.
Read below the Inspiring Quotes of Henry Ford.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
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.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.
Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ….
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.
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.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
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.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.
There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
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.
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.
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement
Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though 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.
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
Some people think they can; some think they can’t. They are probably both right.
