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My Life and Work
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Abdullah Almuslem's review
Oct 20, 2018
Read 2 times. Last read September 28, 2018 to October 20, 2018.
The 2nd time I read this book and –again- I am impressed by Henry Ford.
Henry ford was born July 30, 1863, on a farm at Dearborn, Michigan.US. He was the founder of The Ford Motor Company and the first person to develop the assembly line of mass production. He was the first person to produce a car affordable by public people.
When young, he was a very good watch repairman. At the age of twelve, he encountered a road engine one day when he was driving to town and it was that engine which took him into automotive transportation. His father was not entirely in sympathy with his bent toward mechanics. He thought that he ought to be a farmer.
In this book, Ford puts all his ideas about the industry and how business should be run. His main idea that business must not be a way of only generating money, but it must be a way of doing service to public. It must generate jobs, enhance the quality of living and produce more educated people.
In the book, He showed that he's against unions that do strikes against their management and he clearly mentioned that Jewish people are destroying the ethics of America ( or to put in his word- trying to make America a Jewish country).
Ford had the idea that a lot of people can think, many are well educated but few people are well skilled in putting ideas into practices. He is clearly a practical man who always try to improve and change things.
I cannot put words to praise the way Ford see things. He has a very different way of seeing things compared to many great people in history. I will demonstrate how diverse his interest by putting some quotes from the book:
My mother always said that I was born a mechanic.
Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.
As we serve our jobs we serve the world.
There is no place in civilization for the idler.
If the man is not right the machine cannot be; if the machine is not right the man cannot be.
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail. What is past is useful only as it suggests ways and means for progress.
One idea at a time is about as much as any one can handle.
I read everything I could find, but the greatest knowledge came from the work.
No work with interest is ever hard.
Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting.
Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey.
Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change.
I refuse to recognize that there are impossibilities.
It is not necessary for people to love each other in order to work together.
I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him—if he gets a chance.
One cannot become skilled by mere wishing
There is a pleasure in feeling that you have made others happy—that you have lessened in some degree the burdens of your fellow-men.
If any one has anything better than we have we want to know it, and for that reason we buy one of every new car that comes out.
The worst sin we can commit against the things of our common life is to misuse them.
To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.
Modern industry requires a degree of ability and skill which neither early quitting of school nor long continuance at school provides.
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.
Some men get rich out of war; others get poor. But the men who get rich are not those who fought or who really helped behind the lines. No patriot makes money out of war.
Trying to take the trade of the world can promote war. It cannot promote prosperity.
A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.
What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
Every man of common sense knows that there are men whom he dislikes, who are really more capable than he is himself.
When laziness, carelessness, slothfulness, and lack-interest are allowed to have their own way, everybody suffers.
It is fair to say that this book should be studied not just read… An Excellent book and highly recommended
Henry ford was born July 30, 1863, on a farm at Dearborn, Michigan.US. He was the founder of The Ford Motor Company and the first person to develop the assembly line of mass production. He was the first person to produce a car affordable by public people.
When young, he was a very good watch repairman. At the age of twelve, he encountered a road engine one day when he was driving to town and it was that engine which took him into automotive transportation. His father was not entirely in sympathy with his bent toward mechanics. He thought that he ought to be a farmer.
In this book, Ford puts all his ideas about the industry and how business should be run. His main idea that business must not be a way of only generating money, but it must be a way of doing service to public. It must generate jobs, enhance the quality of living and produce more educated people.
In the book, He showed that he's against unions that do strikes against their management and he clearly mentioned that Jewish people are destroying the ethics of America ( or to put in his word- trying to make America a Jewish country).
Ford had the idea that a lot of people can think, many are well educated but few people are well skilled in putting ideas into practices. He is clearly a practical man who always try to improve and change things.
I cannot put words to praise the way Ford see things. He has a very different way of seeing things compared to many great people in history. I will demonstrate how diverse his interest by putting some quotes from the book:
My mother always said that I was born a mechanic.
Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.
As we serve our jobs we serve the world.
There is no place in civilization for the idler.
If the man is not right the machine cannot be; if the machine is not right the man cannot be.
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail. What is past is useful only as it suggests ways and means for progress.
One idea at a time is about as much as any one can handle.
I read everything I could find, but the greatest knowledge came from the work.
No work with interest is ever hard.
Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting.
Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey.
Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change.
I refuse to recognize that there are impossibilities.
It is not necessary for people to love each other in order to work together.
I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him—if he gets a chance.
One cannot become skilled by mere wishing
There is a pleasure in feeling that you have made others happy—that you have lessened in some degree the burdens of your fellow-men.
If any one has anything better than we have we want to know it, and for that reason we buy one of every new car that comes out.
The worst sin we can commit against the things of our common life is to misuse them.
To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.
Modern industry requires a degree of ability and skill which neither early quitting of school nor long continuance at school provides.
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.
Some men get rich out of war; others get poor. But the men who get rich are not those who fought or who really helped behind the lines. No patriot makes money out of war.
Trying to take the trade of the world can promote war. It cannot promote prosperity.
A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.
What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
Every man of common sense knows that there are men whom he dislikes, who are really more capable than he is himself.
When laziness, carelessness, slothfulness, and lack-interest are allowed to have their own way, everybody suffers.
It is fair to say that this book should be studied not just read… An Excellent book and highly recommended
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January 9, 2015
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January 9, 2015
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January 18, 2015
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September 28, 2018
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Started Reading
September 28, 2018
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October 2, 2018
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October 8, 2018
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October 14, 2018
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October 20, 2018
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