Friday, July 15, 2005

Sound Bites - It's Henry Ford Day!

  • If you think you can, or think you can't you're probably right.
  • If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said "a faster horse".
  • A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
  • An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
  • Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
  • Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
  • Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
  • Don't find fault, find a remedy.
  • Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
  • Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
  • I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
  • It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
  • 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.
  • Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
  • Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
  • Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
  • When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
  • You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

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