Books with author Henry Ford

This edition has been annotated with an original article entitled: HENRY FORD, AS SEEN BY NAPOLEON HILL AND ORISON SWETT MARDEN This article is a biographical portrait extracted from books by the famous american self-help writers Napoleon Hill and Orison Swett Marden, who knew Ford personally and were fervent admirers. In this 1922 book Henry Ford gives a clear image of the Industrial United States in the first quarter of last century. This book is not only about Ford, his life and his philosophy; but about industrial development, the First World War and the main events that put the basis of America. A required reading for those interested in business. The timeless advice it contains, reflects the full experience and wisdom of one of the foremost business moguls of all times.

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) An American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. In doing so, Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would profoundly impact the landscape of the twentieth century. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As the owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world.

We have only started on our development of our country—we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface. The progress has been wonderful enough—but when we compare what we have done with what there is to do, then our past accomplishments are as nothing. When we consider that more power is used merely in ploughing the soil than is used in all the industrial establishments of the country put together, an inkling comes of how much opportunity there is ahead. And now, with so many countries of the world in ferment and with so much unrest every where, is an excellent time to suggest something of the things that may be done in the light of what has been done.

Henry Ford was an American industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company. Ford's achievement in the development of mass production made the automobile affordable for many Americans and it made him one of the richest and most famous people in the world. My Life and Work is Ford's autobiography, published in 1922, which chronicles the rise of one of America's greatest and most influential entrepreneurs.

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Although Ford invented neither the automobile nor the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. In doing so, Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would profoundly impact the landscape of the 20th Century. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry.

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Henry Ford spent most of his life making headlines, good, bad, but never indifferent. Celebrated as both a technological genius and a folk hero, Ford was the creative force behind an industry of unprecedented size and wealth that in only a few decades permanently changed the economic and social character of the United States. When young Ford left his father's farm in 1879 for Detroit, only two out of eight Americans lived in cities; when he died at age 83, the proportion was five out of eight. Once Ford realized the tremendous part he and his Model T automobile had played in bringing about this change, he wanted nothing more than to reverse it, or at least to recapture the rural values of his boyhood. Henry Ford, then, is an apt symbol of the transition from an agricultural to an industrial America.