QUOTES by Henry Ford
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"'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29."
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"I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic."
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"I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that."
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"When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public."
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"My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost."
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"That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life."
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"By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start."
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"'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean."
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"The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art."
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"Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio."
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"Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions."
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"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
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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."
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."
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"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."
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"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
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"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis."
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"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
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"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
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"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
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"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't"
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"Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."
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"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
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"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
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"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
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"I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible."
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"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one."
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"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."
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"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."
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"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
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"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
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"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."
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"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."
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"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."
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"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
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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."
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"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
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"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."
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