12 Henry Ford Quotes on Work

Henry Ford quotes on work

4. I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan I realised that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. Some are older souls than others, and so they know more. The discovery of Reincarnation put my mind at ease. If you preserve a record of this conversation, write it so that it puts men's minds at ease. I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.

5. The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

9. 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.

19. Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

27. I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

29. 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.

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

39. Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

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

47. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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

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