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"Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on service    Share


"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on success    Share

"Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on thoughts and thinking    Share

"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on victory
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"The best vision is insight."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on vision
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"Some self-confronting questions: Where do I want to be at any given time? How am I going to get there? What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?... What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?"

Ford, George A. on planning    Share

"The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

Ford, Henry on work
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"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it."

Ford, Henry on work    Share

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

Ford, Henry on time    Share

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

Ford, Henry on bores and boredom
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"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."

Ford, Henry on belief
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"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."

Ford, Henry on deeds and good deeds
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"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."

Ford, Henry on enthusiasm
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"The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence."

Ford, Henry on excellence
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"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

Ford, Henry on failure
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"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

Ford, Henry on faults    Share

"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."

Ford, Henry on fear
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"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

Ford, Henry on friends and friendship
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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."

Ford, Henry on giving
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"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."

Ford, Henry on god
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"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

Ford, Henry on leadership    Share

"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."

Ford, Henry on learning
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"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

Ford, Henry on ability
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"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

Ford, Henry on mistakes
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"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life."

Ford, Henry on money    Share

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."

Ford, Henry on possibilities    Share

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

Ford, Henry on possibilities    Share

"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."

Ford, Henry on potential
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"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

Ford, Henry on problems
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"When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves."

Ford, Henry on problems
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"Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless."

Ford, Henry on security    Share

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

Ford, Henry on service
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"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

Ford, Henry on simplicity
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"It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all."

Fox, Emmet on love
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"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world."

Fox, Emmet on love
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"Determination that just won't quit -- that's what it takes."

Foyt, A. J. on determination
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"You get out in front -- you stay out in front."

Foyt, A. J. on competition    Share

"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."

Forster, Edward M. on books - reading    Share

"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die."

Forster, Edward M. on communication    Share

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."

Foster, Jodie on normality
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