Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Henry Ford (American Businessperson)

Henry Ford (1863–1947) was an American automobile industrialist and pioneer of large-scale mass production. He had a profound influence on the widespread use of motor vehicles. One of his key innovations, the moving assembly line, is the epitome of modern manufacturing.

Born on a farm near Dearborn, Michigan, Ford initially worked as a machine-shop apprentice, traction car operator, and engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company. He developed a gas-engine car in 1892, founded Ford Motor Company in 1903, and designed the Model T in 1908.

Inspired by Chicago’s meat-processing industry, Ford introduced a moving assembly line in 1913. It revolutionized industrial mass production. Ford then raised the minimum wage to $5 a day and reduced the workday to eight hours. Ford’s innovations ushered not just the automobile but also a wide variety of consumer goods to the mass market, opening the door to modern consumer culture.

Ford became infamous for his virulent anti-Semitic outlook, which he disseminated through his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. His leadership style was increasingly domineering; his anti-unionism caused labor violence at Ford plants during the Great Depression.

In later life, Ford withdrew from the day-to-day leadership of the Ford Motor Company and lived reclusively on his 2,000-acre Dearborn estate. He pursued many philanthropic projects, including Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital and the Ford Foundation.

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
Topics: Knowledge, Mind, Learning

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
Henry Ford
Topics: Attitude, Enthusiasm, Determination

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
Topics: Best, Friendship, Friend

There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.
Henry Ford
Topics: Work

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.
Henry Ford
Topics: Work, Idleness

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
Topics: Teamwork

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Henry Ford
Topics: Competition, Business

Business will get better, but we won’t know when it does.
Henry Ford
Topics: Business

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
Henry Ford
Topics: Evil

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.
Henry Ford
Topics: Learning, Education, One liners

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
Henry Ford
Topics: Economy

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
Topics: One liners, Integrity, Quality

I now know that wars do not end wars.
Henry Ford
Topics: War

We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
Topics: The Present

If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn’t be enough left to run it.
Henry Ford
Topics: Aging, Experience

Indecision is often worse than wrong action.
Henry Ford
Topics: Decide, Courage

If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view—as well as your own.
Henry Ford
Topics: Success

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
Henry Ford
Topics: Good Deeds, Goodness, Deeds

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
Henry Ford
Topics: Problems

Change is not always progress…. A fever of newness had been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.
Henry Ford
Topics: Progress

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
Henry Ford

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry Ford
Topics: Service, Miscellaneous, Worry

He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.
Henry Ford
Topics: Work

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 is all.
Henry Ford
Topics: Money

Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
Henry Ford
Topics: Faults, Action, Problem-solving, Mistakes

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
Topics: Secrets of Success, Success

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford
Topics: Hope, Enthusiasm

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.
Henry Ford
Topics: Discovery, Fear

Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.
Henry Ford
Topics: One liners, Usefullness, Work

The cure for “materialism” is to have enough for everybody and to spare. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
Henry Ford
Topics: Poverty, Money

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