Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. — Henry Ford · Smartyfair

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford1863–1947 · inventor · 1800s-1900s USAHenry Ford was an American industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company and helped make automobiles affordable for ordinary families.1 quote

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What you believe about yourself tends to come true.

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How sure this is: 57% sureLots of sources credit Henry Ford with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
What turned up: Widely attributed to Ford; earliest trace Reader's Digest, Sept 1947 (posthumous, undocumented) per Quote Investigator
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