“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” Henry Ford said this because he had many failures trying to build his first quadricycle. Even after he built his quadricycle he wanted to improve it, and every time he failed he thought of a way to overcome it all, until he succeeded. Henry Ford impacted society in many ways. He first impacted society, when he invented the quadricycle and drove it through the streets of Detroit, then he got financial backers and formed the Detroit Automobile Company. He lastly impacted the society when he wanted to start a rival automobile company.
On July 30th 1863 Henry Ford was born in Springwells Michigan, and lived to be 83 years of age before he died at home, on April 7th, 1947. Exactly 100 years after his father had left Ireland for Michigan. In the year 1888 Henry Ford married Clara Ala Bryant, and in 1893 they had a son named Edsel. May 26, 1943 Edsel dies at age 49 years of age from incurable stomach cancer and on June 1 Henry is reelected as president of Ford Motor Company. His funds in Ford stock went to the Ford Foundation, which had been set up in 1936 as a means of retaining family control of the firm and which eventually became the richest private foundation in the world.
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After two years of building an engine, in a shed behind his house and the basement room at Edison Illuminating. Henry completes his first automobile. The quadricycle and test drives it through the streets of Detroit. I December of 1879, Henry left his home to pursue his interest in machinery in Detroit. In 1988 he creates his first patent for a carburetor. After a few trials building cars and companies, Henry Ford established the Ford Motor Company in