"He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work."
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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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"Whether we think we can or cannot, we are right."
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"New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is."
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"The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity."
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"Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything."
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"There's no such thing as no chance."
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"The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized."
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"Some people believe they are winners, others believe they are losers. And they are both right."
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"The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much."
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"Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance."
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"There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery."
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"The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything."
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"I will build a car for the great multitude."
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"The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action."
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"A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer."
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"You don't have to hold a position to be a leader."
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"What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power"
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"The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all."
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"Sometimes you just don't like somebody"
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