"Why should I clutter my mind with..." - Quote by Henry Ford
Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?
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“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail”
“The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.”
“Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.”
More on Knowledge
“...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.”
“He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.”
“Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.”
More on Delegation
“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
“Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.”