Founder and creator of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford grew up on his family’s farm located outside of Detroit in what is present-day Dearborn, Michigan. Ever since he was a child, Henry Ford enjoyed messing around with machines. His father insisted on him growing up and being a farmer. but Ford has other plans for his life. By age 17 he had left his family farm and went to study engineering in Detroit. While in Detroit he had a job working in a machine shop and\helped him save up to experiment with his own innovations. He worked successfully as an apprentice machinist, he was a part-time employee for the Westinghouse Engine Company, and an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company. By then he was earning enough money to experiment on building an internal combustion engine. Ford was eventually able to invent the Model T, which was a car …show more content…
He would always say “Don’t find fault, find a remedy”. He mastered the assembly line techniques for mass production. One of his more famous quotes is “There is one rule for industrialist and that is to make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.” Henry Ford is seen as an inspiration to most businessmen because he never accepted failure, and was a great innovator of his time. He paid his workers the highest wages around at the time, and he made a tremendous impact in the 20th century by making automobiles practical and affordable for everyday people instead of just the upper class. Ford revolutionized industry in America with the innovations made in his automobiles. During World War II, Ford built the Willow Run factory to build B-24 bombers in support of the American war effort, so you can say he had a great impact on stopping Nazi Germany. Ford was also a charitable man. He used his immense fortune to create the Ford Foundation which is a charitable organization focused social justice and on fighting