Henry Ford Quote

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.

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