Steve Jobs once said that ¨Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower,” this quote explains the difference between the way Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller ran there businesses for instance Henry Ford created new technology like the assembly line, while John Rockefeller followed in the footsteps of all the people before him by paying his workers next to nothing and working them for long hours. In the early 1900s the automobile represented modern manufacturing techniques and created unprecedented economic prosperity while changing the landscape of America. The difference between Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller is “Henry Ford was the compassionate business tycoon of his era. Ford allowed for the spread of automobiles and