Henry Ford Zitate

90 inspirierende Worte über Teamarbeit, Erfolg und persönliches Wachstum

XVII. Kapitel, S. 283
Original engl.: "There were men in every country who were glad to see the World War begin and sorry to see it stop. Hundreds of American fortunes date from the Civil War; thousands of new fortunes date from the World War. Nobody can deny that war is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood." - XVII. Kaptiel, S. 242
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XVII. Kapitel, S. 282
(Original engl.: "An impartial investigation of the last war, of what preceded it and what has come out of it, would show beyond a doubt that there is in the world a group of men with vast powers of control, that prefers to remain unknown, that does not seek office or any of the tokens of power, that belongs to no nation whatever but is international—a force that uses every government, every widespread business organization, every agency of publicity, every resource of national psychology, to throw the world into a panic for the sake of getting still more power over the world."- XVII. Kapitel, S. 241
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XV. Kapitel, S. 258
Original engl.: "More men are beaten than fail." - XV. Kapitel, S. 220
Mein Leben und Werk (My Life and Work)
Variante: Es gibt mehr Leute, die kapitulieren, als solche, die scheitern.

zitiert in: Welt – wohin? Ein Roman der Zukunft, Aldous Huxley, übertragen von Herbert v. Herlitschka, Insel, Leipzig 1932 , siehe auch: heise.de http://www.heise.de/bin/tp/issue/r4/download.cgi?artikelnr=28822&amp;pfad=/tp/r4/artikel/28/28822 <br class="br">Original engl.: &quot;History is bunk. What difference does it make how many times the ancient Greeks flew their kites?&quot;- New York Times vom 29. Oktober 1921 query.nytimes.com http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60612F93B5810738DDDA00A94D8415B818EF1D3 <br class="br">Ford hat dieses Zitat später mehrfach erläutert, z.B.: &quot;As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.&quot; (1935)- zitiert in: uea.ac.uk http://www.uea.ac.uk/~m242/historypgce/purposes/ford.htm

Zitiert in: USA Ploetz - Staatengeschichte zum Nachschlagen, Günter Moltmann, u. Mitw. v. Wolfgang Lindig, 4. aktualis. Aufl., Ploetz, Freiburg 1998. S. 8.
Original engl.: "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 damn is the history we make today." - Chicago Tribune vom 25. Mai 1916, Interview mit Charles N. Wheeler

IX. Kapitel, S. 82
Original engl.: "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black." - IX. Kapitel, S.72
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