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A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

AN IDEALIST IS A PERSON WHO HELPS OTHER PEOPLE TO BE PROSPEROUS.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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.

COMING TOGETHER IS THE BEGINNING. KEEPING TOGETHER IS PROGRESS. WORKING TOGETHER IS SUCCESS.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Ford replied,''Produce it anyway”.

History is more or less bunk.

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 cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

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.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

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If there is any one secret to success it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that angle as well as your own.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

IT IS NOT THE EMPLOYER WHO PAYS THE WAGES. EMPLOYERS ONLY HANDLE THE MONEY. IT IS THE CUSTOMER WHO PAYS THE WAGES.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. 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.

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 goals.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

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.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?

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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 only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

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.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

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There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can.

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.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

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.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do something about them.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

YOU CAN'T LEARN IN SCHOOL WHAT THE WORLD IS GOING TO DO NEXT YEAR.

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.

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.

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