Henry Ford

 

Henry Ford is Amerika's meest bekende industriële voorloper en uitvinder van de Ford Model T auto en oprichter van de Ford Motor Company. Ford had geen interesse in de familie farm en hij begon zijn zoektocht als aankomend machinist in Detroit. Hij bleek gepassioneerd te zijn voor mechanica en werd leerjongen bij de Edison Illuminating Compancy, daar werd hij later hoofd ingenieur. Omdat hij kon beschikken over voldoende financiële middelen, kon hij zich allerlei privé experimenten veroorloven. Op 16 juni 1903 richtte Henry Ford de Ford Motor Company op. Hij ontwikkelde de lopende band productiemethode om z'n auto te bouwen. Dat had niet alleen op de auto industrie een grote impact. Hij kon door zijn voorzienende blik ook de grote economische neergang de baas, als een van de weinige. Zijn eerste auto die hij thuis in Detroit in 1896 bouwde was de Quadricycle. afb. Wikipedia wiki De twee cylinder met 4 PK, in plaats van 2 wielen heeft deze er vier. De aandrijving was met een ketting. De versnelling had maar 2 standen, de eerste tot 16 km/u en de tweede tot 32 km/u. Achteruit was niet uitgevoerd. Een rem was niet uitgevoerd, met de voet op het wiel moest worden afgeremd. Onder de zitting was de 11 liter benzinetank aangebracht. De Quadricycle is in het Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan te bewonderen. https://www.thehenryford.org/visit/henry-ford-museum/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEtnJ7eU7xc   Uitspraken van Henry Ford, waarbij als rode draad geldt: 'U kunt alles en nog wat bereiken als je maar goed gebruik maakt van jouw middelen en mensen om je heen.'   Uitspraken van Ford op een "niet zo willekeurige" volgorde van interesse geordend. Bepaal uw eigen volgorde!   1. Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.   2. Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.   3. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.   4. Whether you think you can, or you think you can't‚ "you're right".   5. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.   6. If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.   7. Learn to do by doing - that's my favorite principle in education.   8. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.   9. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.   10. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.     11. If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.   12. If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.   13. One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.   14. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.   15. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.     16. It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.   17. Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.   18. You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.   19. The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.       - You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.   - Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.   - Vision without execution is just hallucination.   - Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.   - Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.   - There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do   - You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.     omhoog - Homepage