57 Best Henry Ford Quotes on Work (SUCCESS)

Top 17 Most Famous Henry Ford Quotes (INSPIRATIONAL)

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success. — Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, **working** together is **success**.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. — Anyone who stops **learning** is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. — **Wealth**, like **happiness**, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

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

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. — If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time. — Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less **time**.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses'. — If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses’.

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

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind. — The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has **changed** his state of mind.

The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy. — The basically simple things are best, whether it’s automobiles or diets or **philosophy**.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character. — Greatest thing we can produce is **character**. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

40 Motivational Henry Ford Quotes Success and Learning (TEAMWORK)

“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.”
Henry Ford

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. — Any man can **learn** anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. — Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is **success**.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

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. — 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.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. — The whole secret of a **successful** life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. — It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the **time** that others waste.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

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. — 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.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success. — To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is **success**.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much. — The short **successes** that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

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

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. — A business that makes nothing but **money** is a poor business.

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

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

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end. — Two classes of people lose **money**; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation. — An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be **Success**. Success is a first-hand creation.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

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. — 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.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. — If **money** is your **hope** for **independence** you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of **knowledge**, experience, and ability.

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

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself. — Most people think that **faith** means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader. — You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a **leader**.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

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

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. — There is joy in work. There is no **happiness** except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

Conclusion: Henry Ford Short Biography

Born on 30 July 1863 in Wayne County, Michigan, United States, Henry Ford was an industrialist, businessman, and the founder of the Ford Motor Company.

At 16 he traveled to Detroit to find work in the local machine shops, he returned to his family farm after some time and started working part-time for Westinghouse Engine Company. He also studied bookkeeping at Goldsmith, Bryant & Stratton Business College during this time.

In 1893 he became the chief engineer at the Detroit Edison Company. In the same year, he completed his first working gasoline engine.

Three years later, Ford finished production for the first horseless carriage which he named the Quadricycle.

The Henry Ford Company was founded on November 30, 1901, wherein Ford was the chief engineer. But due to business disputes he left the company a year later.

In 1902, Ford built an 80+ horsepower racing car and named it the “999”. A year later the Ford Motor Company was established. The Model T was produced in 1908, which incorporated a steering wheel that was placed on the left side, which other motor vehicle companies followed.

Henry Ford is also known for having implemented “welfare capitalism”, which he used to improve the quality of life for his employees. Employees were paid $5 daily, much higher than the normal daily wage at the time.

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