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Ability
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Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
-Henry Ford
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The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
-Henry Ford
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
-Henry Ford
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Adversity
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
-Henry Ford
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Ambition
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You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
-Henry Ford
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Assumptions
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Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
-Henry Ford
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Belief
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
-Henry Ford
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Boredom
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A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
-Henry Ford
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Business
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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
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
-Henry Ford
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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.
-Henry Ford
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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
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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
-Henry Ford
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Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
-Henry Ford
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Confidence
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Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
-Henry Ford
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Determination
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You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
-Henry Ford
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Enthusiasm
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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
-Henry Ford
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Excellence
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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.
-Henry Ford
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Exercise
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Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it.
-Henry Ford
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Experience
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If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
-Henry Ford
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Failure
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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
-Henry Ford
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Fear
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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
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Fools, Foolishness
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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.
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Friends
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
-Henry Ford
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Goals
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-Henry Ford
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God
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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-Henry Ford
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Goodness
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Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
-Henry Ford
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History
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History is more or less bunk.
-Henry Ford
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Honor
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Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.
-Henry Ford
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Idealism
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
-Henry Ford
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Leadership
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
-Henry Ford
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Learning
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
-Henry Ford
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Mistakes
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Don't find fault, find a remedy.
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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
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Money
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.
-Henry Ford
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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.
-Henry Ford
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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
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Pessimism
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Never complain. Never explain.
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Potential
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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
-Henry Ford
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There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
-Henry Ford
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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources -- to do something about them.
-Henry Ford
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Problems
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There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
-Henry Ford
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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
-Henry Ford
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When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
-Henry Ford
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Quality
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There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
-Henry Ford
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If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.
-Henry Ford
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Responsibility
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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
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Security
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Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.
-Henry Ford
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Service
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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
-Henry Ford
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Simplicity
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
-Henry Ford
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Success & Failure
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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.
-Henry Ford
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Teamwork
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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
-Henry Ford
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Time
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
-Henry Ford
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Work
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The object of living is work, experience, happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford, "Quoted in Forbes", January 1, 1963
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.
-Henry Ford
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Books by and about Henry Ford
