“ IMITATION”
\ HENRY FORD’S VIEWS. “fSomeone has said that ‘imitation is the eincerest flattery,’ but that is only a hint to those who wish to flatter. Imitation is a confession that the thing which is imitated’’ is better than one can do oneself; it is also a confession that one is con'tent to be an imitator,” says Mr Henry Ford in the Humanist. “The truth about imitation is found in another saying—‘Imitation is suicide.’ “Certainly it is the end of initiative and independence; it is the farewell to originality; it is the deliberate abandonment of individuality, and the enemy of genius. “This has a direct bearing cn a subject in which everybody is interested —success. “Too often we hear success spoken of as if it can be imitated. Successful men are held up as examples to young peojple who are advised, ‘De as this man did it.’ Methods of success are held up for imitation with the counsel, ‘Follow this course and it will lead to success.’ “But success does net come by imitation. An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be success. “Success is a first-hand creation. Take a thousand, successful men, and each man’s ©tcry will be different. It will be original.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 126, 1 April 1926, Page 1
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