Henry Ford Quotes
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The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.
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To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition
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The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
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Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.
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Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.
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The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
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I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
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Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.
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The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
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There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.
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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
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Too many men are afraid of being fools.
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The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.
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Failure is the chance to do it better next time.
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I'll sleep well tonight
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A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.
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Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.
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Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.
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Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
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The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
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Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.
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Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?
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Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.
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I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.
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Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose
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Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.
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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
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