Dang, I wasn't expecting that
A couple days ago, I was in the midst of writing when I came across a quote from Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company in 1903. It was a quote I had seen many times before, but, for some reason, it prompted me to search up Henry Ford on the internet.
I came across a database of his most popular quotes. I read the first one… banger. I read the second one… banger. The third one, “Oh my goodness, this guy isn’t missing.”
I wasn’t expecting to be hit with such a strong dose of wisdom in a few simple quotes, but I was, to the point that I felt like it was worth passing along.
Here are some of Henry Ford’s best pieces of wisdom:
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.”
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
“When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it...”
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.”
The quote that led me to searching up Mr. Ford:
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”
And perhaps my favorite of them all:
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”
In 1921, Ford even predicted and called for an “energy currency” that would “do more to end war than a thousand years of agitation.”
I wonder what that could ₿e?
