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Henry Ford

Industrialist · American · 1863 – 1947

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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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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
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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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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
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Don't find fault, find a remedy.
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Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.
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You can get it in any color, as long as it is black
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Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.
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Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.
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The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
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The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .
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Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.
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Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.
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I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.
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Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.
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The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
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Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, _x000D_ always going, no matter what happens, there is no _x000D_ certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.
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Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
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Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.
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I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
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No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.
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