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- Herausgeber: Blago Kirov
- Kategorie: Lebensstil
- Sprache: Englisch
This book is an anthology of quotes from Henry Ford and selected facts about Henry Ford.“Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....”“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”“Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.”“Success is 99% failure”“Those who walk with God, always reach their destination.”
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016
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Henry Ford: Quotes & Facts
By Blago Kirov
First Edition
Translated by Krasi Vasileva
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Henry Ford: Quotes & Facts
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Copyright © 2016 by Blago Kirov
Foreword
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.”
This book is an anthology of quotes from Henry Fordand selected facts about Henry Ford.
“Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....”
“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
“Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.”
“Success is 99% failure”
“Those who walk with God, always reach their destination.”
At 15, Ford dismantled and reassembled the timepieces of friends and neighbors dozens of times, gaining the reputation of a watch repairman.
His father expected him to eventually take over the family farm, but he despised farm work.
In 1879, Ford left home to work as an apprentice machinist in Detroit.
In 1891, Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company.
In 1896 Ford completed a self-propelled vehicle which he named the Ford Quadricycle.
Teaming up with former racing cyclist Tom Cooper, Ford produced the 80+ horsepower racer "999" which Barney Oldfield was to drive to victory in a race in October 1902.
The Model T was introduced on October 1, 1908.
By 1918, half of all cars in America were Model T's.
President Woodrow Wilson asked Ford to run as a Democrat for the United States Senate from Michigan in 1918.
By 1926, flagging sales of the Model T finally convinced Henry to make a new model. The result was the successful Ford Model A, introduced in December 1927 and produced through 1931, with a total output of more than 4 million.
Ford did not believe in accountants; he amassed one of the world's largest fortunes without ever having his company audited under his administration.
Ford was adamantly against labor unions.
Ford was a pioneer of "welfare capitalism", designed to improve the lot of his workers.Ford astonished the world in 1914 by offering a $5 per day wage ($120 today), which more than doubled the rate of most of his workers.
Ford's most successful aircraft was the Ford 4AT Trimotor, often called the "Tin Goose" because of its corrugated metal construction.
