These quotable quotes are worth thinking about: Thanks to 3Rivers Federal Credit Union
Employment Visionaries: Henry Ford on Employment and Disabilities
I believe that there is very little occasion for charity in this world–that is, charity in the sense of making gifts. We have found it possible, among the great number of different tasks that must be performed somewhere in the company, to find an opening for almost any one and on the basis of production (ed. not a hand out). The blind man or cripple (sic, 1924 society) can, in the particular place to which he is assigned, perform just as much work and receive exactly the same pay as a wholly able-bodied man.
I want this painted on my outside office wall – please, someone!!
Our mission – our vision – is to take people out of their comfort zone, out of their habits of generational social dependency, out of their contentment with handouts – is to take them higher into a new place they have never dared hope they can experience: a place where they have real job skills that are worthy of real pay that they earned, not begged.