Henry Ford was an American Industrialist, The founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line,[1] he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. In doing so, Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would profoundly impact the landscape of the twentieth century. His introduction of the Model T automobilerevolutionized transportation and American industry. As the owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation and arranged for his family to control the company permanently.
Facts:
- Henry Ford was a complex and at times, contradictory personality with a wide range of interests and strongly held opinions. You probably know about Ford's achievements in automobile production, but...
- As a child, he was inspired by his mother, who encouraged his interest in tinkering.
- His father was a farmer. He encouraged Henry’s interest in the use of machines on the farm.
- He was inspired by steam-powered tractors when he was a teenager. This made him think about the way things work.
- He was fired from his first job.
- Henry built his first gasoline engine at home and tested it in the kitchen. He mounted it on the kitchen sink.
- Thomas Edison was Henry Ford’s role model and later his close friend.
- He built and drove race cars early in his career to demonstrate that his engineering designs produced reliable vehicles.
- He failed with his first two companies before he succeeded with Ford Motor Company.
- The idea for using a moving assembly line for car production came from the meat-packing industry.
- He financed a pacifist expedition to Europe during WWI.
- He adopted a paternalistic policy to reform his workers' lives both at home and at work.
- He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1918.
- He owned a controversial newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, that published anti-Jewish articles which offended many and tarnished his image.
- He promoted the early use of aviation technology.
- Henry Ford built Village Industries, small factories in rural Michigan, where people could work and farm during different seasons, thereby bridging the urban and rural experience.
- He sought ways to use agricultural products in industrial production, including soybean-based plastic automobile components such as this experimental automobile trunk.
- He was one of the nation's foremost opponents of labor unions in the 1930s and was the last automobile manufacturer to unionize his work force.
- Ford mobilized his factories for the war effort and produced bombers, Jeeps, and tanks for World War II.
- He established schools in several areas of the country that provided educational experiences based on traditional one room school techniques, modern teaching methods, and "learning through doing".
- He established an indoor/outdoor museum--The Henry Ford--to preserve historical items that illustrated the American experience and American ingenuity.
Quotations:
The following are selection of his best Quotes, i.e. Wisdom, Success, Failure, Motivational and Inspiring Quotes.
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
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"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge,
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"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing"
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"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it"
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"Anyone who stop learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. anyone who keeps learning stays young"
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"Vision without execution is just hallucination"
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"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
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"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice"
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"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ...."
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"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs"
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"Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain"
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"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
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"You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start all there is,it's how we use it that makes things possible."
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"One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do."
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"If everyone is moving forward together, then success take care of itself."
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