You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

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About Henry Ford

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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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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right..

History is more or less bunk.

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

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.

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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

—John F. Kennedy

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The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

—William Shakespeare

Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

—William Shakespeare

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