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" If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got. "

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" I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford. "

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" The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. "

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