Henry Ford
United States
30 Jul 1863 // 7 Apr 1947
Industrialist
30 Jul 1863 // 7 Apr 1947
Industrialist
Industry must manage to keep wages high and prices low. Otherwise it will limit the number of its customers. One's own employees should be one's best customers.
Quoted in The American Treasury 1455-1955 (Clifton Fadiman, ed.; 1955)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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