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“The economic fundamental is labour.”

Henry Ford buch My Life and Work

Quelle: My Life and Work (1922), p. 9
Kontext: The economic fundamental is labour. Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. It is men 's labour that makes the harvest what it is. That is the economic fundamental: every one of us is working with material which we did not and could not create, but which was presented to us by Nature.

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

As quoted in International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations (1951) by William S. Walsh
Attributed from posthumous publications
Variante: You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

“My best friend is one who brings out the best in me”

Actually due to Harris Weinstock: "My best friend is the man who can bring out of me my best, and your best friend is the one who tends to bring out the best in you" (May 1914) Attributed to Henry Ford as early as 1948.
Misattributed

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

Patrick Vlaskovits, " Henry Ford, Innovation, and That “Faster Horse” Quote https://hbr.org/2011/08/henry-ford-never-said-the-fast," in Harvard Business Review, August 29, 2011.
Misattributed