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| Henry Ford
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. Anybody can do anything that he imagines. Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Don't find fault, find a remedy. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. 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. 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. 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. If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing: you're right. 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. It's not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It's the customer who pays the wages. 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's all. Most people spend more time and energy in going around problems than in trying to solve them. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. 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. Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. The whole secret of a succesful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it. The whole secret to a successful life it to find out what it is one's destiny to do, and then do it. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. 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. |
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