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141 " Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right. "
― Henry Ford
142 " And when a man is really at work, he needs no title. His work honours him. "
― Henry Ford , My Life And Work (The Autobiography Of Henry Ford)
143 " Skepticism, if by that we mean cautiousness, is the balance wheel of civilization. "
144 " Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you are right. "
145 " The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service. "
146 " Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution. "
147 " Progress through cautious, well founded experiments. "
148 " We get some of our best results by letting fools Rush in where angels dear to tread "
149 " If a device would save in time 10% or bring about results worth 10% then its absence is worth 10%. "
150 " A department is a little factory unto itself with input and output "
151 " All that the Ford industries have done—all that I have done—is to endeavour to evidence by works that service comes before profit and that the sort of business which makes the world better for its presence is a noble profession. "
152 " 1. An absence of fear of the future and of veneration for the past. One who fears the future, who fears failure, limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail. What is past is useful only as it suggests ways and means for progress. "
153 " The difficulty is not in finding men to advance but men willing to be advanced. "
154 " Be not bound by the present, but leave nothing to luck. "
155 " Everything can always be done better than it is being done. "
156 " Without scientific study, an employer does not know why he is paying a wage and the employee does not know why he is getting it. "
157 " Buying ahead of requirements does not pay. Any wins are negated later down the line. "
158 " Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas. An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas "
159 " You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. "
160 " 2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to try to get business away from another man—criminal because one is then trying to lower for personal gain the condition of one's fellow man—to rule by force instead of by intelligence. "