http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0730.html
Open the above url to open the link leading to Henry Ford's obituary from the Associated Press.
Open the above url to open the link leading to Henry Ford's obituary from the Associated Press.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
-Henry Ford
To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.
-Henry Ford
The above quote tells a lot about Henry Ford and his character. His character was obviously very respectable because he cares so much for others as shown in the quote. Ford's accomplishments clearly made him a very wealthy man, but there was more behind his career than the money. Ford genuinely cared about making a difference in the world for the better. As he went through his life, he impacted many people with not only his great work as a business man and engineer, but he was an honorable man to all the people he came in contact with. Service was a major part of Henry Ford's life.
"From the beginning of his industrial career, Mr. Ford had in mind the mass production of a car which he could produce and sell at large quantity and low cost, but he was balked for several years by the lack of a steel sufficiently light and strong for his purpose. By chance one day, picking up the pieces of a French racing car that had been wrecked at Palm Beach, he discovered vanadium steel, which had not been manufactured in the United States up to that time.
With this material he began the new era of mass production. He concentrated on a single type of chassis, the celebrated Model T, and specified that "any customer can have a car painted any color he wants, so long as it is black." On Oct. 1, 1908, he began the production of Model T, which sold for $850. The next year he sold 10,600 cars of this model. Cheap and reliable, the car had a tremendous success. In seven years he built and sold 1,000,000 Fords; by 1925 he was producing them at the rate of almost 2,000,000 a year."
-From Henry Ford's Obituary in the Associated Press.
With this material he began the new era of mass production. He concentrated on a single type of chassis, the celebrated Model T, and specified that "any customer can have a car painted any color he wants, so long as it is black." On Oct. 1, 1908, he began the production of Model T, which sold for $850. The next year he sold 10,600 cars of this model. Cheap and reliable, the car had a tremendous success. In seven years he built and sold 1,000,000 Fords; by 1925 he was producing them at the rate of almost 2,000,000 a year."
-From Henry Ford's Obituary in the Associated Press.