If you do not need money, you have traveled to another machine "
Once, at the end of 1920, traveling to Florida on his Ford-T, one gentleman I saw on the roadside a man trying to repair his posh car. He decided to help the unfortunate driver. Looking under the hood, it is something out there and turned the car roared into life.
Joyful owner car offered in gratitude to his savior ten dollars. But he refused, saying that good arranged.
"If you do not need money, you have traveled to another machine" - shook his head motorist. The gentleman there was nothing like getting into a car and leave. It was Henry Ford himself ...
"But all you come on my machine"
One of the articles in the newspaper "Chicago Tribune" Henry Ford was called ignorant for which he gave to the newspaper to court. At the trial, counsel was allowed to ask a few questions about the Ford program of high school. No one question the plaintiff did not reply, but was not taken aback. Yes, he did not know what to do for the country, George Washington. So what? He is a self-taught mechanic and does not hide it.
Everyone sitting here, maybe three of higher education and, nevertheless, they all go at it, they (Ford) cars! Despite the fact that the court dismissed the claim, there is little that could boost the popularity of the machines, like the process.
"I - Henry Ford, no matter what I put on the
Once, when he was a billionaire, Henry Ford came on for England. At the airport information desk, he asked the cheapest hotel in town. The employee looked at him - his face was well known. Newspapers around the world often write about Ford. And now he is here - in a cloak, who looked older than him and asks about the cheapest hotel. The employee asked uncertainly:
- If I'm not mistaken, you - Mr. Henry Ford?
- Yes, - he answered.
The employee was surprised.
- I watch the news and know that your son, arriving somewhere, always stops at the best hotels, and always beautifully dressed. And you are asking for the cheapest hotel and wearing a cloak that did not seem younger than you. Can you save money?
Henry Ford angrily replied:
- I need not dwell in an expensive hotel, wherever I stopped, I - Henry Ford. In the cheapest hotel I do not care, Henry Ford, there is no difference. My son is still young and inexperienced, he's afraid that people think, if he stops in a cheap hotel.
And this coat - yes, it still wore a coat, my father, but it does not matter: why me new cloths? I - Henry Ford, no matter what I wore, always and everywhere I am - Henry Ford. And the rest is unimportant.