Synopsis
"My Life and Work" is the autobiography of Henry Ford. Written in conjunction with Samuel Crowther, "My Life and Work" chronicles the rise and success of one of the greatest American entrepreneurs and businessmen. Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company will forever be identified with early 20th century American industrialism. The innovations to business and direct impact on the American economy of Henry Ford and his company are immeasurable. His story is brilliantly chronicled in this classic American biography. "My Life and Work" at Goodreads.com
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Notable Quotes from "My Life and Work"
Introduction: What is the Idea?
Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live. They are but means to an end. For instance, I do not consider the machines which bear my name simply as machines. If that was all there was to it I would do something else. I take them as concrete evidence of the working out of a theory of business...
If I merely want money the present system is all right; it gives money in plenty to me. But I am thinking of service.
Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.
I take it for granted that we must work.
We learn from Russia that it is the minority and not the majority who determine destructive action.
Freedom is the right to work a decent length of time and to get a decent living for doing so; to be able to arrange the little personal details of one's own life.
If I merely want money the present system is all right; it gives money in plenty to me. But I am thinking of service.
Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.
I take it for granted that we must work.
We learn from Russia that it is the minority and not the majority who determine destructive action.
Freedom is the right to work a decent length of time and to get a decent living for doing so; to be able to arrange the little personal details of one's own life.