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Henry Ford
Henry Ford
1922·Dearborn, Michigan, USA

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

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1913·Dearborn, Michigan, USA

I will build a motor car for the great multitude. 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.

1916

I don't know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don't care. 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.

1928

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