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#26 My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford

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Why You Need to Reason From First Principles

In the beginning, there was hardly anyone who sensed that the automobile could be a large factor in industry. The most optimistic hoped only for a development akin to that of a bicycle. So no man of money even thought of it as a commercial possibility. I cannot imagine why each new means of transportation meets with such opposition. Humans score in the abstract. We love to jump on things that we see.

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