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Great list of quotes from Henry Ford.  Go check out the full article 21 Quotes From Henry Ford On Business, Leadership And Life over at Forbes.

  • There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
  • Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
  • Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
  • Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
  • Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.
  • Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.  Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
  • Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.
  • Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
  • The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
  • If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses.’
  • You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
  • If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
  • Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.
  • Vision without execution is just hallucination.
  • There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
  • A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
  • I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.
  • A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits.  They will be embarrassingly large.
  • You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
  • Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
  • To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

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Top 10 Metro Areas for High-Tech Startup Density:

  1. Boulder, Colo.
  2. Fort Collins-Loveland, Colo.
  3. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif.
  4. Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, Mass.
  5. Seattle, Wash.
  6. Denver, Colo.
  7. San Francisco, Calif.
  8. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-Va.-Md.
  9. Colorado Springs, Colo.
  10. Cheyenne, Wyo.

The full Kauffman Foundation report can be found here.  Originally found via Quartz.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I give you the most boring science experiment ever: The Pitch-Tar Drop.

 

 

Earlier this month the decades long experiment came to an exciting, yet expected conclusion – it finally broke off.

The project leaders were quoted as saying “We were all so excited”, “It’s been such a great talking point, with colleagues eager to investigate the mechanics of the break, and the viscosity of the pitch.”

While the impact to the broader scientific community is yet to be determined, one thing is clear: you can make a living for decades by watching tar slowly ooze through a funnel.

Source: Business Insider

This is one of the coolest infographics I’ve seen in awhile – it’s officially called “The Conversation Prism 4.0”.  Still not sure what you’re looking at?  Well…

Developed in 2008 by Brian Solis, The Conversation Prism is a visual map of the social media landscape. It’s an ongoing study in digital ethnography that tracks dominant and promising social networks and organizes them by how they’re used in everyday life.

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Source: ConversationPrism.com

Found via: Cool Infographics