Success is easy, but destruction is not difficult.

Reading biographies is the most efficient and lowest cost entrance to understand an era.

From 65438 to 0999, Henry Ford was named the greatest entrepreneur by Fortune magazine. In 2005, Forbes' greatest entrepreneur was the first.

Henry Ford, the greatest man in the whole industrial society, developed and sold a T-car which accounted for more than 50% of the world's cars 100 years ago, and sold150 thousand cars, which was extremely cheap, with the lowest price of 200 dollars, and ordinary workers could buy it in two months' salary.

In the industrial age, the automobile industry is the crown of the times, and Model T is the diamond in the crown.

Henry Ford was born in 1863, an Irish immigrant with the lowest status among American immigrants, with a typical red neck.

Red neck, the values of white people in the eastern and southern United States, Puritans, advocating self-struggle, * * * and the party's bottom values represented by George W. Bush. Red neck was a compliment at that time, but now it is synonymous with rudeness, rusticity and stupidity.

Why did Henry Ford succeed?

1, very talented and idiosyncratic, obsessed with machinery since childhood.

2. I have a good life. When I grew up, I went to Edison Company with high salary and relaxed company atmosphere.

3. Detroit's entrepreneurial environment is particularly good, relaxed and free, and tolerant of new things.

The mayor of Mayberry awarded Henry Ford the first car license plate in human history.

Henry Ford and Edison maintained a good friendship after parting ways.

After resigning, I started a business in a chain. I have failed twice before. I am an engineer with a geek personality, regardless of the cost.

1903, the third venture was successful. The main reasons are as follows:

1, the investor asked him to do it. The mining king sent two people, a banker and a right-hand man.

2. Learn from experience and lessons to produce low-cost mass production cars.

Ford: Every dollar that my car price drops, I get 1000 new customers.

Cars enter thousands of households, not toys for the rich.

The whole market is to screen out winners.

Henry Ford's two great inventions:

At the beginning, a group of people surrounded a car 100 hours. After the assembly line, everyone is responsible for a simple program to produce a Model T car every 10.

The Ministry of Social Work was established to determine the workers' family moral standards.

Why did you get a big raise?

1, workers are very labor intensive.

2, the sense of honor, the sense of honor collapsed after the assembly line, and the soul life was empty.

Henry Ford has a famous saying: I obviously hired a pair of hands, why did someone come?

Ford's three comments: he looked down on Jews, was beaten by company guards, and Essl Ford's relatives and friends hated old Ford.

Ethel Ford, an only child, a rich second generation with good standards. Old Ford also loves this son very much, but there is a great contradiction between father and son. Excessive love leads to distrust. I really think my son is not as good as him. Out of a frustration education concept, my son will pour cold water on any plan of the empire.

For example.

Model T hasn't had a new car for 20 years, and Essl did the opposite.

1920 Lincoln went bankrupt and Essl bought it for $8 million. Leland and his son, the core figures of Lincoln Company, were fired.

This is not a simple family conflict. The Ford family is placed in the background of the company's great empire, which will amplify the small contradictions between family ties.

Bennett, one of Ford's three killers, was born in the bottom, black and white, worked as a bodyguard for old Ford and established a series of factory guards. Expand the distrust between father and son.

1943, Ethel Ford died of stomach cancer.

Henry Ford Jr. joined the army in his twenties. The two forces joined forces and the whole family joined forces against the elderly. Roosevelt put Henry II in charge of the empire. Thanks to the efforts of Ford II, the automobile empire was revived.

1, no matter how successful one is, one should remain modest. A generation has a generation of dumb luck.

2, once successful, we must be careful, large companies are large organizations that establish social cooperation out of thin air.

If a person wants to succeed, he must be awesome, be the best himself and wait for God's choice. Once a person succeeds, he should be the best himself, and don't let people's evil nature be magnified.