Quotes About Progress

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

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 made today.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

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

When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

success is 99% failure

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

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 dam is the history we made today.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, only more intelligently.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled—he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

Hidup adalah serangkaian pengalaman, Setiap pengalaman membuat kita lebih besar, walau pun kita tidak menyadarinya.

An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

How soon will Ford blow up?" Nobody knows how many thousand times it has been asked since. It is asked only because of the failure to grasp that a principle rather than an individual is at work, and the principle is so simple that it seems mysterious.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

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