"You can take my factories, burn up..." - Quote by Henry Ford
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
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“Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.”
“The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.”
“I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.”
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“The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.”
“A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.”
“Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.”