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When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

Henry Ford

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Henry Ford
Age: 83 †
Born: 1863
Born: July 30
Died: 1947
Died: April 7
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Engineer
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Racing Automobile Driver
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Dearborn
Michigan
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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
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Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
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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.
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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
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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.
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A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.
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If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.
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I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
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I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.
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Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.
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The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.
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