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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.
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Goodness
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Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
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History
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History is more or less bunk.
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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.
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Idealism
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.
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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.
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There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
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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.
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Problems
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There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
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When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Books by and about Henry Ford