The world is full of talented broke people.

What separates the rich from the poor is discipline.

Yo tuve la suerte de estar bien preprado para alguien como Botvinnik gracias a mi madre Klara. Mi madre herdó un estricto sentido de la importancia del orden y la rutina de su propria familia. Para mí, las cosas sencillamente funcionaban así, y simpre me sentí cómodo con este regimen. Dormir, comer, ir a la escuela, estudiar y divertirse, todo formaba parte de un horario.

Gary Kasparov

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun

Discipline is remembering what you want.

David Campbell

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

George S. Patton

Having lunch alone in the office.

Everything is going well, I try to enjoy the little things . Anything can happen, yes anything, I try not to do many plans.

"If you can’t be happy with a coffee, you won’t be happy with a yacht."

@naval

“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction."

— Warren Buffett

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Henry Ford

Original Ford Mission

In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor Company: to create "a motor car for the great multitude." At that time, automobiles were expensive, custom-made machines.

To help build a better world, where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

Well Henry Ford had a mentality of service of doing more with less, of building cheap and robust products that would last forever.

In August 6 2022 , wall Street Journal had the following cover

At Ford, Quality Is Now Problem 1

Ford used to tout the reliability of its vehicles in ads. After a string of recalls, the auto maker is trying to change how it finds problems.

A company has to have one image, like Toyota has of reliability, not cheap but very good lasting products. In Africa we almost only see TOYOTAS. FORD used to have an image of cheap reliable and a good price. That is gone. what should FORD do now.

Not this:

On July 11, The Detroit Free Press reported that Ford deliberately ignored warnings from engineers that the transmission on its low-cost Focus and Fiesta models was defective. Then, the company told dealers to tell customers that everything was fine, even though it knew that wasn't the case.

what went wrong?

After many decades the company launched a new strategic plan in 2000 to focus on the 21st century. The strategy was aimed at increasing market share and production of smart cars with fuel efficiency.

Well to have a strategic plan to increase market market share is something Henry Ford would never do. They should solve small problems make a better product . But that was not the strategy. The results are below. They lost their position to TOYOTA. Reliable is not FORD anymore

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Henry Ford

Having or showing dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good arguments or reasons to do so.