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People See Successes That Men Have Made And Somehow They Appear To Be Easy. But That Is A World Away From The Facts. It Is Failure That Is Easy. Success Is Always Hard. A Man Can Fail Easily; He Can Succeed Only By Paying Out All That He Has And Is.

-Henry Ford

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People See Successes That Men Have Made And Somehow They Appear To Be Easy. But That Is A World Away From The Facts. It Is Failure That Is Easy. Success Is Always Hard. A Man Can Fail Easily; He Can Succeed Only By Paying Out All That He Has And Is.

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History's Just One Darn Thing After Another.

One Thing After Another

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

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Whether We Think We Can Or Cannot, We Are Right.

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World Government

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

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If People Understood How The Economic System Works, There'd Be A Revolution In A Minute.

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

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