![]() ![]() He was a relentless technological innovator, based on his commitment to creating "the best possible goods at the lowest possible price." He focused on making ongoing changes in design and production that would drive down costs while improving the product. For example, he hired African-Americans, women and disabled people long before most other business owners did so, and was passionately committed to the principle of paying good wages to hire and keep the best employees. He certainly had his dark side (he seems to have been anti-semitic for at least part of his life, believing in a world conspiracy of "Jewish financiers"), but he was at the same time hugely progressive and forward-thinking in many other ways. I was intrigued, and started doing a bit of research.Īs it turns out, Ford was a veritable font of pithy and insightful one-liners about business and leadership - and a fascinating human being, as well. I knew, before starting to write this post, what we all know about Henry Ford: founder of Ford MotorCompany, seminal proponent of mass production in the form of the assembly line, creator of the Model T and author of the tart line, "you can have it in any color you want, as long as it is black." Then one of my readers, Sagar Adhikari, shared a great Henry Ford quote in a comment he made on one of my posts. ![]()
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