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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.
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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.
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Books by and about Henry Ford