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Henry Ford Quotes and Quotations
It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. History is more or less bunk. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something. Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right. I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. 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. The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. 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. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently. One who fears failure limits his activities. 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. |