Henry Ford quotes

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
Henry Ford

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
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The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do
it.
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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have
accomplished something.
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It is not the employer who pays - he only handles money. It is the product that pays wages.
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
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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.
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Asking "Who ought to be the boss?" is like asking, "Who ought to be the tenor in the
quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
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There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
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There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
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Money is like an arm or a leg - use it or lose it.
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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get to other person's point of
view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
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Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the
furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.
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Too many men are afraid of being fools.
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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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If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.
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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
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Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a
cure for poverty.
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Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the
fire hazard.
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We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish
expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and
useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is
better than to teach him to save.
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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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History is more or less bunk.
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