The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
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Henry Ford
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About Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles.
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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. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks…
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.
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.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks…
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
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The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
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.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
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.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
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.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.