Henry Ford

Industrialist

Henry Ford was an American industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company, known for revolutionizing the automobile industry with assembly line production.

Born
July 30, 1863
Died
April 7, 1947
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"There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter."

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"Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind."

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"You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure."

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"The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time."

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"Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind."

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"An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages."

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"There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way."

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"Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself"

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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this."

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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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"There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy."

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"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."

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"An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation."

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"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."

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