"Luck and destiny are the excuses of..." - Quote by Henry Ford
Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.
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“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.”
“Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.”
“It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.”
More on Responsibility
“How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?”
“When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are.”
“We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.”
More on Failure
“I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.”
“Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.”
“The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.”