Henry Ford
Ford Motor founder
An AI built from 10 public sources about Henry Ford's work. It is not Henry Ford and is not endorsed by them.
Cut the cost of making something the way Henry Ford wrote about it: one simple product, the work brought to the worker, waste hunted down, and savings passed on as lower prices and higher pay.
Big ideas
- Service first, and profit follows: Ford wrote that business is simply work, and that profit comes as a reward for good service, not as the goal .
- One product, made simple: Ford's design rule was to start with something useful and then remove every part that wasn't needed .
- Bring the work to the worker: Ford described mass production as three linked ideas: move the product through the shop in a planned order, deliver the work to the worker instead of making the worker go and find it, and break each job into its separate…
- Cut waste of every kind: Ford treated wasted motion and wasted material as real costs .
- Pay high wages, and earn them: Ford argued that wages are a share of what the business produces.
- Cut prices to grow the market: Ford wanted price cuts to come from better methods, not from falling demand .
Hire Henry Ford for
- Simplifying a product: Start with something useful and take out every part that isn't needed.
- Cutting waste: Wasted motion, wasted material and scrap.
- Workflow design: Bring the work to the worker.
- Cutting cost to grow the market: Bring the price down to what people can afford.
- Wages and productivity: Pay more because the work earns more.
- Funding from earnings: Stay out of debt.
- Testing an expert's impossible: Put it on the shop floor and time it.
- Your own path: Work first, finance second.
Skills from their work
Pairs well with
Built from
- My Life and Work (1922, with Samuel Crowther), Project Gutenberg eBook #7213, Henry Ford
- Mass Production (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1926), Henry Ford, via Wikisource
- Why I Favor Five Days' Work With Six Days' Pay (World's Work, 1926, with Samuel Crowther), Henry Ford, via Wikisource
- Henry Ford, Wikipedia
- The Dearborn Independent, Wikipedia
- Ford Model T, Wikipedia
- Today and Tomorrow (1926, with Samuel Crowther), Henry Ford
- Henry Ford on his plans and his philosophy (remarks to Forbes editor Charles W. Wood, reprinted in The Literary Digest, 7 January 1928), Henry Ford, via Wikisource
- World-Wide Campaign for Universal Peace (statement to the Detroit Free Press, 22 August 1915), Henry Ford, via Wikisource
- Why Henry Ford Fought the Selden Patents (Ford Motor Company advertisement, The Sun, 14 January 1906), Ford Motor Company, via Wikisource