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

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The Human Score in the Abstract

If the owner of a skyscraper could increase his income 10%, he would willingly pay half the increase just to know how. We get some of our best results from letting fools rush in where angels fear to tread. I refuse to recognize that there are impossibilities. Henry Ford is going to take the opposite approach. The factory keeps no record of experiments. If you keep on recording all of your failures you will shortly have a list showing that there is nothing left for you to try. James Dyson: It is not necessary for any one department to know what the other department is doing.

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