My Life and Work by Henry Ford

Book Review - Five Stars

My Life and Work by Henry Ford

Henry Ford was a self-made man, philosophical thinker of exceptional intellect with self-motivated determination who strived for and achieved perfection. He considering his workers, and at the same time his perspective buyers. A true American icon.

I loved the book and the inspiring resoluteness of character...Henry Ford was a one of a kind phenomenon. A great must read book.

Excerpts:

“Russia will have to go to work,” but that does not describe the case. The fact is that poor Russia is at work, but her work counts for nothing. It is not free work. In the United States a workman works eight hours a day; in Russia, he works twelve to fourteen. In the United States, if a workman wishes to lay off a day or a week, and is able to afford it, there is nothing to prevent him. In Russia, under Sovietism, the workman goes to work whether he wants to or not. The freedom of the citizen has disappeared in the discipline of a prison-like monotony in which all are treated alike. That is slavery. Freedom is the right to work a decent length of time and to get a decent living for doing so; to be able to arrange the little personal details of one’s own life.

When a man is master of his own sphere, whatever it may be, he has won his degree, he has entered the realm of wisdom.

Perhaps no word is more overworked nowadays than the word “democracy,” and those who shout loudest about it, I think, as a rule, want it least.