Henry was born in 1863 on a family farm in Michigan; Henry Ford exposed great talent for machinery repairs early on in his life. Mainly attempting to make daily farm life easier for his family, he studied every possible mechanical angle of farm machines and tools. At the age of 16, Henry started working as a trainee machinist studying how to operate and repair steam engines for the next three years. While nurturing his natural abilities and developing engineering skills, Henry Ford supported his family by running sawmill. Soon enough, Edison Illuminating Company spotted the young talented man and offered him a job as an engineer. Henry Ford quotes are inspirational, his sayings will give you the energy and motivation required to keep moving forward in life.
35 Henry Ford Quotes
- “A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.” Henry Ford
- “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Henry Ford
- “With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.” Henry Ford
- “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” Henry Ford
- “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” Henry Ford
- “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.” Henry Ford
- “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
- “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” Henry Ford
- “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” Henry Ford”
- “Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.” Henry Ford
- “As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.” Henry Ford
- “If there is anyone 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.” Henry Ford
- “Impossible means that you haven’t found a solution yet.” Henry Ford
- “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” Henry Ford
- “It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.” Henry Ford
- “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford
- “It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” Henry Ford
- “Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.” Henry Ford
- “Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.” Henry Ford
- “Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.” Henry Ford
- “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” Henry Ford
- “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” Henry Ford
- “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
- “There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.” Henry Ford
- “Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.” Henry Ford
- “The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.” Henry Ford
- “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it” Henry Ford
- “Those who walk with God, always reach their destination.” Henry Ford
- “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” Henry Ford
- “Vision without execution is just hallucination.” Henry Ford
- “There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” Henry Ford
- “When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ….” Henry Ford
- “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.” Henry Ford
- “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.” Henry Ford
- ”If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Henry Ford
