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.
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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.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Henry FordCompetition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
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.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
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There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
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.
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.