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All Fords Are Exactly Alike, But No Two Men Are Just Alike. Every New Life Is A New Thing Under The Sun; There Has Never Been Anything Just Like It Before, Never Will Be Again. A Young Man Ought To Get That Idea About Himself; He Should Look For The Single Spark Of Individuality That Makes Him Different From Other Folks, And Develop That For All He Is Worth. Society And Schools May Try To Iron It Out Of Him; Their Tendency Is To Put It All In The Same Mold, But I Say Don't Let That Spark Be Lost; It Is Your Only Real Claim To Importance.

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All Fords Are Exactly Alike, But No Two Men Are Just Alike. Every New Life Is A New Thing Under The Sun; There Has Never Been Anything Just Like It Before, Never Will Be Again. A Young Man Ought To Get That Idea About Himself; He Should Look For The Single Spark Of Individuality That Makes Him Different From Other Folks, And Develop That For All He Is Worth. Society And Schools May Try To Iron It Out Of Him; Their Tendency Is To Put It All In The Same Mold, But I Say Don't Let That Spark Be Lost; It Is Your Only Real Claim To Importance.

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All Fords Are Exactly Alike, But No Two Men Are Just Alike. Every New Life Is A New Thing Under The Sun; There Has Never Been Anything Just Like It Before, Never Will Be Again. A Young Man Ought To Get That Idea About Himself; He Should Look For The Single Spark Of Individuality That Makes Him Different From Other Folks, And Develop That For All He Is Worth. Society And Schools May Try To Iron It Out Of Him; Their Tendency Is To Put It All In The Same Mold, But I Say Don't Let That Spark Be Lost; It Is Your Only Real Claim To Importance.

Show Me Who Makes A Profit From War, And I'll Show You How To Stop The War.

Opportunities Will Not Overlook You Because You Are Wearing Overalls.

Writing Is The Only Profession Where Nobody Considers You Ridiculous If You Earn No Money. Money Is Like An Arm Or A Leg; Use It Or Lose It.

Use It Or Lose It

There Are No Big Problems, There Are Just A Lot Of Little Problems.

To Do More For The World Than The World Does For You - That Is Success.

Business Must Be Run At A Profit, Else It Will Die. But When Anyone Tries To Run A Business Solely For Profit, Then Also The Business Must Die, For It No Longer Has A Reason For Existence.

Come Ye Thankful People, Come, Raise The Song Of Harvest-home!

The Unhappiest Man On Earth Is The One Who Has Nothing To Do.

Hard Knocks Have A Place And Value, But Hard Thinking Goes Farther In Less Time.

Every Business Is A Monarchy With, Not A Man, But An Idea As King.

Merely Gathering Knowledge May Become The Most Useless Work A Man Can Do. What Can You Do To Help And Heal The World? That Is The Educational Test.

Money Doesn't Change Men. It Merely Unmasks Them.

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 Poor Man Is Not The One Without A Cent. A Poor Man Is The One Without A Dream.

You Can't Tell Me You Can Make Any System Or Country Work With Low Wages And High Prices, And High Wages With High Prices Don't Mean Anything When The Prices Eat Up The Wages And Don't Leave Anything Over.

I Did Not Say History Was Bunk. It Was Bunk To Me . . I Did Not Need It Very Bad.

You Will Find Men Who Want To Be Carried On The Shoulders Of Others, Who Think That The World Owes Them A Living. They Don't Seem To See That We Must All Lift Together And Pull Together.

My Opposition To War Is Not Based Upon Pacifist Or Non-resistant Principles. It May Be That The Present State Of Civilization Is Such That Certain International Questions Cannot Be Discussed; It May Be That They Have To Be Fought Out. But The Fighting Never Settles The Question. It Only Gets The Participants Around To A Frame Of Mind Where They Will Agree To Discuss What They Were Fighting About.

You Don't Have To Hold A Position To Be A Leader.

Why Should I Clutter My Mind With General Information When I Have Men Around Me Who Can Supply Any Knowledge I Need?

No Unemployment Insurance Can Be Compared To An Alliance Between A Man And A Plot Of Land.

If Two People Agree, One Of Them Is Unnecessary.

If You Don't Think Of The Future, You Won't Have One.

Reading Musses Up My Mind.

It Has Been My Observation That Most People Get Ahead During The Time That Others Waste.

One Who Fears Failure Limits His Activities.

I Invented Nothing New. I Simply Combined The Inventions Of Others Into A Car. Had I Worked Fifty Or Ten Or Even Five Years Before, I Would Have Failed.

Working Together Is Success.

Working Together

There Is Only A "marginal Difference" Separating Those Who Are Truly Successful And Those Who Merely Do Well.whether You Believe You Can Do Something Or Not, You Are Right!

Do Your Best Every Time Because By Doing A Thing Well You Build Something Valuable Into Yourself

The Best Way Is Always The Simplest. The Attics Of The World Are Cluttered Up With Complicated Failures.

Work Mixed With Management Becomes Not Only Easier But More Profitable. The Time Is Past When Anyone Can Boast About 'hard Work' Without Having A Corresponding Result To Show For It.

Many People Are Busy Trying To Find Better Ways Of Doing Things That Should Not Have To Be Done At All. There Is No Progress In Merely Finding A Better Way To Do A Useless Thing.

You Must Know All There Is To Know In Your Particular Field And Keep On The Alert For New Knowledge. The Least Difference In Knowledge Between You And Another Man May Spell His Success And Your Failure.

We Try To Pay A Man What He Is Worth And We Are Not Inclined To Keep A Man Who Is Not Worth More Than The Minimum Wage.

Whatever You Have, You Must Either Use Or Lose.

Have A Great Day

Nothing Can Be Made Except By Makers, Nothing Can Be Managed Except By Managers. Money Cannot Make Anything And Money Cannot Manage Anything.

The Basically Simple Things Are Best, Whether It's Automobiles Or Diets Or Philosophy.

Paying Good Wages Is Not Charity At All-it Is The Best Kind Of Business.

Records Can Be Destroyed If They Do Not Suit The Prejudices Of Ruling Cliques, Lost If They Become Incomprehensible, Distorted If A Copyist Wishes To Impose A New Meaning Upon Them, Misunderstood If We Lack The Information To Interpret Them. The Past Is Like A Huge Library, Mostly Fiction.

He Who Believes He Can And He Who Believes He Cannot Are Both Correct.

We Now Know That Anything Which Is Economically Right Is Also Morally Right. There Can Be No Conflict Between Good Economics And Good Morals.

Thinking Always Ahead, Thinking Always Of Trying To Do More, Brings A State Of Mind In Which Nothing Is Impossible. The Moment One Gets Into The 'expert' State Of Mind A Great Number Of Things Become Impossible.

If The People Really Set Their Minds On Anything It Is Impossible To Prevent Their Getting What They Want.

The Only Motive That Can Keep Politics Pure Is The Motive Of Doing Good For One's Country And Its People.

A Business Which Can Bring Itself To The Point Where It Attracts The Attention Of Money Should Be Able To Continue On Its Own Feet Without Being Financed.

Man Minus The Machine Is A Slave; Man Plus The Machine Is A Freeman.

You Say I Started Out With Practically Nothing, But That Isn't Correct. We All Start With All There Is, It's How We Use It That Makes Things Possible.

History's Just One Darn Thing After Another.

One Thing After Another

Ideas Are Of Themselves Extraordinarily Valuable, But An Idea Is Just An Idea. Almost Anyone Can Think Up An Idea. The Thing That Counts Is Developing It Into A Practical Product.

It Is A Striving To Attain The Best. To Throttle It Would Mean To Stop All Progress. Certain Men Do Not Need To Compete. They Are Pioneers.

The Whole Key Of The Profitable Everyday Living Will Be To Discover Out What's One's Future To Try And Do, And After That Do It.

The Way To Learn To Do Things Is To Do Things. The Way To Learn A Trade Is To Work At It. Success Teaches How To Succeed. Begin With The Determination To Succeed, And The Work Is Half Done Already.

There Is Safety In Small Beginnings And There Is Unlimited Capital In The Experience Gained By Growing.

A Manufacturer Is Not Through With His Customer When A Sale Is Completed. He Has Then Only Started With His Customer.

The Great Need Of The World Has Always Been For Leaders. With More Leaders We Could Have More Industry. More Industry, More Employment And Comfort For All.

Every Man Starts With All There Is. Everything Is Here-the Essence And Substance Of All There Is.

Machines Were Devised Not To Do A Man Out Of A Job, But To Take The Heavy Labor From Man's Back And Place It On The Broad Back Of The Machine.

The Best Way To Make Money In Business Is Not To Think Too Much About Making It.

Failure Is Simply The Opportunity To Begin Again, This Time More Intelligently.

A Man Given To Pride Is Usually Proud Of The Wrong Thing.

Anyone Who Keeps Learning Stays Young.

Our Clothing, Our Food, Our Household Furnishings - All Could Be Much Simpler Than They Now Are And At The Same Time Be Better Looking

When One Speaks Of Increasing Power, Machinery, And Industry There Comes Up A Picture Of A Cold, Metallic Sort Of World In Which Great Factories Will Drive Away The Trees, The Flowers, The Birds, And The Green Fields. And That Then We Shall Have A World Composed Of Metal Machines And Human Machines. With All Of That I Do Not Agree. I Think That Unless We Know More About The Machines And Their Use, Unless We Better Understand The Mechanical Portion Of Life, We Cannot Have The Time To Enjoy The Trees, And The Birds, And The Flowers, And The Green Fields.

A Market Is Never Saturated With A Good Product, But It Is Very Quickly Saturated With A Bad One.

Every Depression Is A Challenge To Every Manufacturer To Put More Brains Into His Business.

The Model T Blazed The Way For The Motor Industry & Started The Movement For Good Roads Everywhere. It Is Still The Pioneer Car In Many Parts Of The World Which Are Just Beginning To Be Motorized.

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.

Funny Inspirational

Any Customer Can Have A Car Painted Any Colour That He Wants So Long As It Is Black.

Economy Has Frequently Nothing Whatever To Do With The Amount Of Money Being Spent, But With The Wisdom Used In Spending It.

Capital Punishment Is As Fundamentally Wrong As A Cure For Crime As Charity Is Wrong As A Cure For Poverty.

For Most Purposes, A Man With A Machine Is Better Than A Man Without A Machine.

The Time Will Come When Man Will Know Even What Is Going On In The Other Planets And Perhaps Be Able To Visit Them.

I Think That Much Of The Advice Given To Young Men About Saving Money Is Wrong. I Never Saved A Cent Until I Was Forty Years Old. I Invested In Myself - In Study, In Mastering My Tools, In Preparation. Many A Man Who Is Putting A Few Dollars A Week Into The Bank Would Do Much Better To Put It Into Himself.

People Can Have The Model T In Any Color – So Long As It’s Black.

The More You Think, The More Time You Have.

Surgery For Early Stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Is Standard Treatment And Is Likely Curative. Yet, Fewer Blacks Than Whites Undergo Surgery For The Disease, Leading To A Higher Mortality Rate Among Blacks With Lung Cancer.

When Everything Seems To Be Going Against You, Remember That The Airplane Takes Off Against The Wind, Not With It.

You Can Do Anything If You Have Enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm For Life

Motivational Sales

The Function Of The Machine Is To Liberate Man From Brute Burdens, And Release His Energies To The Building Of His Intellectual And Spiritual Powers For Conquests In The Fields Of Thought And Higher Action.

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.

I Am Looking For A Lot Of Men Who Have An Infinite Capacity To Not Know What Can't Be Done.

Understand The Difference Between Being At Work And Working.

Business Men Go Down With Their Businesses Because They Like The Old Way So Well They Cannot Bring Themselves To Change. One Sees Them All About - Men Who Do Not Know That Yesterday Is Past, And Who Woke Up This Morning With Their Last Year's Ideas.

You Can't Build A Reputation On What You're Going To Do. It's Simple, Fantasize, Rehearse, Then Go Out Into The World And Do It!

With God In Charge, I Believe Everything Will Work Out For The Best In The End.

An Idealist Is A Person Who Helps Other People To Be Prosperous.

I Am In Exact Accord With The Belief Of Thomas Edison That Spirit Is Immortal, That There Is A Continuing Center Of Character In Each Personality. But I Don't Know What Spirit Is, Nor Matter Either. I Suspect They Are Forms Of The Same Thing. I Never Could See Anything In This Reputed Antagonism Between Spirit And Matter. To Me This Is The Most Beautiful, The Most Satisfactory From A Scientific Standpoint, The Most Logical Theory Of Life.

Greed Is Merely A Species Of Nearsightedness.

Wealth, Like Happiness, Is Never Attained When Sought After Directly. It Comes As A By-product Of Providing A Useful Service.

Chop Your Own Wood And It Will Warm You Twice

Life Is A Series Of Experiences, Each One Of Which Makes Us Bigger, Even Though Sometimes It Is Hard To Realize This. For The World Was Built To Develop Character, And We Must Learn That The Setbacks And Grieves Which We Endure Help Us In Our Marching Onward.

The Secret Of Success Is To Understand The Viewpoint Of Others.

Secret To Success

You Can't Learn In School What The World Is Going To Do Next Year.

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.

Speculation Is Only A Word Covering The Making Of Money Out Of The Manipulation Of Prices, Instead Of Supplying Goods And Services.

There Is No Man Living That Can Not Do More Than He Thinks He Can.

If I Lose A Billion Dollars, I Will Have It Back In Less Than Five Years.

Success Is A Matter Of Adjusting One's Efforts To Obstacles And One's Abilities To A Service Needed By Others.

Of Course, It Is Not The Employer Who Pays Wages. He Only Handles The Money. It Is The Product That Pays Wages And It Is The Management That Arranges The Production So That The Product May Pay The Wages.

Without Doubt, Thomas Edison Is My Greatest Contemporary.

I Was Happier When I Was Doing A Mechanic's Job.

No Government Can Guarantee Security. It Can Only Tax Production, Distribution And Service And Gradually Crush The Power To Pay Taxes. That Settles Nothing. It Only Uses Up The Gains Of The Past And Postpones The Developments Of The Future.

Every Experience Is Worth Having.

Before Everything Else, Getting Ready Is The Secret Of Success.

Wealth Is Nothing More Or Less Than A Tool To Do Things With. It Is Like The Fuel That Runs The Furnace Or The Belt That Runs The Wheel - Only A Means To An End.

There Are A Million Boys Growing Up In The United States Who Have Never Seen A Saloon, And Who Will Never Know The Handicap Of Liquor And This Excellent Condition Will Go On Spreading Over The Country When The Wet Press And The Paid Propogandists Of Booze Are Forgotten. The Abolition Of The Commercialized Liquor Trade In This Country Is As Final As The Abolition Of Slavery.

Any Man Who Thinks He Can Be Happy And Prosperous By Letting The Government Take Care Of Him Better Take A Closer Look At The American Indian.

Thinking Is Hard Work, Which Is Why So Few People Do It.

Every Success Is The Mother Of Countless Others.

There Are Two Ways Of Making Yourself Stand Out From The Crowd. One Is By Having A Job So Big You Can Go Home Before The Bell Rings If You Want To. The Other Is By Finding So Much To Do That You Must Stay After The Others Have Gone. The One Who Enjoys The Former Once Took Advantage Of The Latter.

I See No Advantage In These New Clocks. They Run No Faster Than The Ones Made 100 Years Ago.

Every Object Tells A Story If You Know How To Read It.

Our Help Does Not Come From Washington, But From Ourselves.

Most People Think Of Success In Terms Of Getting; Success, However, Begins In Terms Of Giving.

It Is The Customer That Pays The Wages

Bankers Play Far Too Great A Part In The Conduct Of Industry.

This Company Doesn't Pay Anybody. Only Customers Can Do That. The Company Merely Handles The Money.

Thought Provoking

You Can Take My Factories, Burn Up My Buildings, But Give Me My People And I'll Build The Business Right Back Again.

The One Aim Of These Financiers Is World Control By The Creation Of Inextinguishable Debts.

World Government

Since We Do Not Take A Man On His Past History, We Do Not Refuse Him Because Of His Past History. I Never Met A Man Who Was Thoroughly Bad. There Is Always Some Good In Him If He Gets A Chance.

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.

Competition Is The Keen Cutting Edge Of Business, Always Shaving Away At Costs.

An Educated Man Is Not One Whose Memory Is Trained To Carry A Few Dates In History - He Is One Who Can Accomplish Things.

An Educated Person, I Think, Is One Who Not Only Knows A Lot, But Knows How To Do A Lot Of Things.

All That Money Can Do Is Buy Us Some One Else's Work In Exchange For Our Own.

That The Devil Finds Work For Idle Hands To Do Is Probably True. But There Is A Profound Difference Between Leisure And Idleness.

Minicars Produce Miniprofits.

The Hardest Thing In The World To Do Is To Think, And That Is Why People Do So Little Of It.

What's Right About America Is That Although We Have A Mess Of Problems, We Have Great Capacity - Intellect And Resources - To Do Some Thing About Them.

I Can Visualize The Time When Almost Every Family Will Have A Small Plane In Their Back Yard.

I Will Build A Car For The Great Multitude.

You Can Do Anything If You Have Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm Is The Yeast That Makes Your Hopes Rise To The Stars.

Almost All Enduring Success Comes To People After They Are Forty. For Seldom Does Mature Judgment Arrive Before Then.

You Can't Build A Reputation On What You Are Going To Do.

When The Leaves Of The Strongest Tree Fall, Spring Is Here.

Profit Is A By-product Of Work; Happiness Is Its Chief Product.

The Public Should Always Be Wondering How It Is Possible To Give So Much For The Money.

The Workingmen Have Been Exploited All The Way Up And Down The Line By Employers, Landlords, Everybody.

There Are Always Two Kinds Of People In The World - Those Who Pioneer And Those Who Plod. The Plodders Always Attack The Pioneers. They Say That The Pioneers Have Gobbled Up All The Opportunity, When, As A Plain Matter Of Fact, The Plodders Would Have Nowhere To Plod Had Not The Pioneers First Cleared The Way.

The Human Race Cannot Forever Exist Half-exploiters And Half-exploited.

Obstacles Are Those Frightful Things You See When You Take Your Eyes Off Your Goal.

Those Who Walk With God Always Reach Their Destination.

Walking With God

A Big Business Never Becomes Big By Being A Narrow Society Looking After Only The Interests Of Its Organization And Stockholders.

If It Doesn't Add Value, It's Waste.

If It Is 'anti-semitism' To Say That Communism In The United States Is Jewish, So Be It; But To The Unprejudiced Mind It Will Look Very Much Like Americanism. Communism All Over The World, Not In Russia Only, Is Jewish.

Political Parties Are Like Poets, Born, Not Made.

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.

The Gifted Man Bears His Gifts Into The World, Not For His Own Benefit, But For The People Among Whom He Is Placed; For The Gifts Are Not His, He Himself Is A Gift To The Community.

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.

Don't Find The Fault, Find The Remedy

Whether You Think You Will Succeed Or Not, You Are Right.

Every Man Is Entitled To Make A Darn Fool Of Himself At Least Once In A Lifetime.

Once In A Lifetime

For Thirty Years I Have Leaned Toward The Theory Of Reincarnation. It Seems A Most Reasonable Philosophy And Explains Many Things. No, I Have No Desire To Know What, Or Who I Was Once; Or What, Or Who, I Shall Be In The Ages To Come. This Belief In Immortality Makes Present Living The More Attractive. It Gives You All The Time There Is. You Will Always Be Able To Finish What You Start. There Is No Fever Or Strain In Such An Outlook. We Are Here In Life For One Purpose: To Get Experience. We Are All Getting It, And We Shall All Use It Somewhere.

The Only Prosperity The People Can Afford To Be Satisfied With Is The Kind That Lasts

The Only Thing You Can Give A Man Without Hurting Him Is An Opportunity.

There Is No Failure Except Failure To Serve One's Purpose.

The Human Mind Is A Channel Through Which Things-to-be Are Coming Into The Realm Of Things-that-are .

As Long As We Look To Legislation To Cure Poverty Or To Abolish Special Privilege We Are Going To See Poverty And Special Privilege Grow

The Average Man Won't Really Do A Day's Work Unless He Is Caught And Cannot Get Out Of It. There Is Plenty Of Work To Do If People Would Do It.

As We Serve Our Jobs We Serve The World.

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.

One Who Fears Failure Limits His Activities. Failure Is Only The Opportunity To More Intelligently Begin Again.

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 - And Enjoy With His Family The Blessing Of Hours Of Pleasure In God's Great Open Spaces.

It's Your Thinking That Decides Whether You're Going To Succeed Or Fail.

If You Think You Can Or Cannot Accomplish A Task, You Will Be Correct In Either Case.

Any Decision You Make Isn't Worth A Tinkers Damn Until You Have Formed The Habit Of Making And Keeping It.

Decisions You Make

Progress Is Not Made By Pulling Off A Series Of Stunts. Each Step Has To Be Regulated. A Man Cannot Expect To Progress Without Thinking.

In My Mind Nothing Is More Abhorrent Than A Life Of Ease. None Of Us Has Any Right To Ease. There Is No Place In Civilization For The Idler.

A Dollar Put Into A Book And A Book Mastered Might Change The Whole Course Of A Boy's Life. It Might Easily Be The Beginning Of The Development Of Leadership That Would Carry The Boy Far In Service To His Fellow Men.

Enthusiasm Is The Sparkle In Your Eyes, The Swing In Your Gait.

To Me This Is The Most Beautiful, The Most Satisfactory From A Scientific Standpoint, The Most Logical Theory Of Life. For Thirty Years I Have Leaned Toward The Theory Of Reincarnation. It Seems A Most Reasonable Philosophy And Explains Many Things.

There Is Fuel In Every Bit Of Vegetable Matter That Can Be Fermented. There's Enough Alcohol In One Year's Yield Of An Acre Of Potatoes To Drive The Machinery Necessary To Cultivate The Fields For A Hundred Years.

The Fuel Of The Future Is Going To Come From Fruit Like That Sumach Out By The Road, Or From Apples, Weeds, Sawdust - Almost Anything.

One Needs To Be Successful In The Conventional Way To Learn Just How Far Away From Success It May Be.

Burdening People With Debt Is An Old Deal Not A New Deal.

Patience And Foresight Are The Two Most Important Qualities In Business

The Thing To Do With Money Is To Put It Back Into Yourself, Into Your Work, Into The Thing That Is Important, Into Whatever You Are So Much Interested In That It Is More Important Than Money.

The Only Real Mistake Is The One From Which We Learn Nothing.

Auto Racing Began 5 Minutes After The Second Car Was Built.

An Underpaid Man Is A Customer Reduced In Purchasing Power. He Cannot Buy. Business Depression Is Caused By Weakened Purchasing Power. Purchasing Power Is Weakened By Uncertainty Or Insufficiency Of Income. The Cure Of Business Depression Is Through Purchasing Power, And The Source Of Purchasing Power Is Wages.

Greatest Thing In Life Is Experience. Even Mistakes Have Value.

Genius Is Seldom Recognized For What It Is: A Great Capacity For Hard Work.

Life, As I See It, Is Not A Location, But A Journey. Life Flows.

Borrowing For Expansion Is One Thing; Borrowing To Make Up For Mismanagement And Waste Is Quite Another.

I Found That Competition Was Supposed To Be A Menace And That A Good Manager Circumvented His Competitors By Getting A Monopoly By Artificial Means.

Some People Think They Can; Some Think They Can't. They Are Probably Both Right.

Those Who Believe They Can Do Something And Those Who Believe They Can't Are Both Right.

Funny Inspirational

Some People Believe They Are Winners, Others Believe They Are Losers. And They Are Both Right.

My Grandfather Killed My Father In My Mind. I Know He Died Of Cancer-but It Was Because Of What My Grandfather Did To Him.

An Airplane Takes Off Against The Wind, Not With It.

Why Use Up The Forests Which Were Centuries In The Making And The Mines Which Required Ages To Lay Down, If We Can Get The Equivalent Of Forest And Mineral Products In The Annual Growth Of The Hemp Fields?

I Don't Like To Read Books. They Muss Up My Mind.

A Nation That Knows How To Work Will Never Suffer.

Life Is Work, And Everything You Do Is So Much More Experience. Sometimes You Work For Wages, Sometimes Not, But What Does Anybody Make But A Living? And Whatever You Have You Must Either Use Or Lose.

Education Is Preeminently A Matter Of Quality, Not Amount.

I Cannot Discover That Anyone Knows Enough To Say Definitely What Is And What Is Not Possible.

Positive Thinking

I Invented Nothing New, I Simply Assembled The Discoveries Of Other Men Behind Whom There Was Centuries Of Work.

Education Is Not Something To Prepare You For Life; It Is A Continuous Part Of Life.

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