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“Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure, I will start in at the beginning and build it up again.”

— Henry Ford

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Henry Ford
Type
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Context

February 11, 1934; quoted in: Peter Collier, ‎David Horowitz (2001). The Fords: An American Epic. p. 108

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Ford, Henry. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Henry Ford. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Ford

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