Better To Be Occasionally Cheated Than Perpetually

Now, Ideas Are The Raw Material Of Progress. Everything First Takes Shape In The Form Of An Idea. But An Idea Itself Is Worth Nothing. An Idea, Like A Machine, Must Have Power Applied To It Before It Can Accomplish Anything. The Men Who Have Won Fame And Fortune Through Having An Idea Are Those Who Devoted Every Ounce Of Their Strength And Every Dollar They Could Muster To Putting It Into Operation. Ford Had A Big Idea, But He Had To Sweat And Suffer And Sacrifice To Make It Work.

Jealousy... Is A Mental Cancer.

Henry Ford Has Several Times Sneered At Unproductive Stockholders.... Well, Now. Let's See. Who Made Henry Ford's Own Automobile Company Possible? The Stockholders Who Originally Advanced Money To Him. Who Makes It Possible For You And Me To Be Carried To And From Business By Train Or Street Car? Stockholders.... Who Made Our Vast Telephone And Telegraph Service Possible? Stockholders.... Were Stockholders All Over The Country To Withdraw Their Capital From The Enterprises In Which They Are Invested, There Would Be A Panic ... On A Scale Never Before Known.

Plan Your Work - Work Your Plan

If The World War [i] Demonstrated Anything It Was That Government Ownership Is Fraught With The Gravest Dangers And Usually Leads To Disaster. Take Britain. The Two Problems Which Have Caused The Greatest Trouble Since The War Ended Have Been Transportation And Coal. The Government Seized Both Industries When The War Broke Out. It Got Them Into Such A Hopeless Mess That It Does Not Know How To Turn [in] Coal; The Government Now Realizes, It Took Hold Of The Tail Of A Wild Animal And Is Afraid To Let Go.