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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A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford
Topics: Boredom, Bores

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

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
Henry Ford
Topics: Money

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

A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy’s life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
Henry Ford
Topics: Books

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.
Henry Ford
Topics: Fools, Foolishness

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
Topics: Time, Waste, Time Management

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: One liners, Education, Learning

Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one’s talents and gifts to the benefits of others – these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.
Henry Ford
Topics: Honor, Talent, Success, Goals

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

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
Henry Ford
Topics: Assumptions

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

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.
Henry Ford

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford
Topics: Business

To do more for the world than the world does for you—that is success.
Henry Ford
Topics: Helping

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
Topics: Idealism, Ideals

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

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.
Henry Ford
Topics: Business

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

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 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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford
Topics: Business

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry Ford
Topics: School

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.
Henry Ford
Topics: Belief, Think, Right, Ability, Virtues

Never complain. Never explain.
Henry Ford
Topics: Pessimism, Complaints, Complaining

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.
Henry Ford
Topics: Independence, Knowledge

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford
Topics: Money

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
Henry Ford
Topics: Beginnings, Miscellaneous, Teamwork, Togetherness, Teams

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
Henry Ford
Topics: Potential

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
Topics: Success, Entrepreneurs, Progress, Teamwork

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