People can have the Model T in any colour—so long as it's black.

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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. In 1911, he...

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History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. 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 made today.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

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People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.