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Summary of My Life and Work 

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American industrialist and business magnate Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and the chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. His famous Model T automobile idea revolutionized transportation and the American industry. In 1999, Henry Ford was among the 18 included in Gallup’s List of Widely Admired People in the 20th Century. Here is a partial list of his awards: in 1928, he was awarded Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal. Symphonic composer Ferde Grofé composed a tone poem in his honor in 1938. He was also awarded Nazi Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle in the same year. In 1965-1978, the United States Postal Service honored him with a prominent American series 12 cents postage stamp. In 2008, he appeared as a great builder in the 2008 strategy video game Civilization Revolution. “When one of my cars breaks down, I know I am to blame.” ~ Henry Ford

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  • Summary of My Life and Work
  • About the author
  • What is My Life and Work about?
  • Who should read My Life and Work
  • Topics in My Life and Work
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It is better to concentrate on perfecting a good idea than to hunt around for a new idea

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On July 30, 1863, Henry Ford was born on a farm at Dearborn, Michigan. There was too much hard hand-labor on the Ford family farm and all other farms of the time. Henry Ford suspected that much could be done in a better way. That was what took him into mechanics, although his mother always said that he was born a mechanic.
Ford industries endeavored to evidence by works that the service they provide is more important than making money.
At age 12, he saw a road engine about 8 miles out of Detroit one day when he was driving to town with his father. The vehicle was made by Nichols, Shepard & Company of Battle Creek. From the time he saw that road engine as a boy of 12, his ambition was to make a machine that would travel the roads.

At age 13, Ford tried for the first time to put a watch together so that it would keep time. By the time he was 15, he could do almost anything in watch repairing. His father wanted him to be a farmer, but Henry wanted to have something to do with machinery. So, when he left school at 17, he became an apprentice in the machine shop of the Drydock Engine Works.

This summary will introduce you to the autobiography that chronicles the rise and success of Henry Ford.
An idea is not good because it is old or bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. ~ Henry Ford
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Many inventors fail because they do not differentiate between planning and experimenting

In 1879, Henry Ford worked as an expert in setting up and repairing road engines at the Westinghouse Company of Schenectady.
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A manufacturer is not done with their customer when a sale is completed; the machine must give service

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Service is seeking to provide something better, not only something new

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Ford Motor Company was built on the principle that skilled men do not necessarily need to be in production

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If people are unhindered, they will focus even on the smallest tasks

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To enhance diversity, model your organization’s structure after society

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There will never be a system invented that will do away with the necessity of work

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