Henry Ford
Henry Ford (1863. 7.30.~1947. 4. 7.)
He was an entrepreneur and engineer who founded the Ford Motor Company and was the first person in the world to successfully mass-produce automobiles. It is also said that he invented the word "modern".
John Davison Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and John Pierpont Morgan, among others, were also called billionaires, but their assets during their lifetimes did not exceed $1 billion. Henry Ford was the first person whose assets exceeded $1 billion during his lifetime.
In 1919, Ford Motor Company became 100% owned by Henry Ford after he bought back all the shares from other shareholders who had contributed capital at the time of the company's founding. However, shortly afterwards, he transferred 42% of his shares to his eldest son, Edsel, and 3% to his wife, Clara, retaining only 55% for himself. When the shareholders who contributed capital at the time of the founding of Ford Motor Company in 1903 disposed of their shares in 1919, they received a 2500-fold return on their investment; those who invested $10,000 received $25 million.
○ Quality means doing right when no one is looking.
○ Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
○ Coming together is a 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. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
○ Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.
○ The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
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○ It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
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○ A vision without action is merely a hallucination.
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○ Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
○ Don't look for faults — look for solutions. Anyone can complain.
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