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41 " 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. "
― Henry Ford
42 " 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. "
43 " Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. "
44 " It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. "
45 " 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. "
46 " If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. "
47 " It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. "
48 " If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. "
49 " Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. "
― Henry Ford , My Life And Work (The Autobiography Of Henry Ford)
50 " I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. "
51 " Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right. "
52 " Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. "
53 " If you think you can or think you can't your correct. "
54 " I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one... "
55 " I quit my job on August 15, 1899, and went into the automobile business...The most surprising feature of business as it was conducted was the large attention given to finance and the small attention to service. That seemed to me to be reversing the natural process which is that the money should come as the result of work and not before the work...My idea was then and still is that if a man did his work well, the price he would get for that work—the profits and all financial matters—would care for themselves and that a business ought to start small and build itself up and out of its earnings. "
56 " I think that unless we know more about machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life; we are not able to enjoy the trees, the birds, the flowers, the green fields, the sky and the nature to the fullest (~a little edited *_^*). "
57 " I think that unless we know more about machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life; we are not able to enjoy the trees, the birds, the flowers, the sky and the nature to the fullest (~a little edited *_^*). "
58 " Everybody wants to be someplace he ain't. "
59 " The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. "
60 " success is 99% failure "