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