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21 " Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right. "
― Henry Ford
22 " Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. "
23 " Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right. "
24 " 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. "
25 " Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. "
26 " Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth. "
27 " I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. "
28 " I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago. "
29 " Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about. "
30 " 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. "
31 " If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. "
32 " When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.Ford replied,''Produce it anyway. "
33 " I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. "
34 " A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. "
35 " 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. "
36 " 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. "
37 " 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. "
38 " Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. "
39 " Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. "
40 " There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. "