Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-03-30 | Page 10 | Henry Ford's Philosophy

Ii I Henry Fords Ford's Philosophy I IBy By DR FRANK CRANE Neither intelligence nor business genIus alone could build up up a great industrial organization like lile the Ford Motor company A common sense philosophy of life that can meet success and failure and keep leep on just the same must be added lord company has grown out of the chara character char char- a acter ter of Henry lenry Ford as a pant ant grows out of a seed His practical common commonsense sense phil philosophy sophy is reflected reflected re- re in the following o observations made at different different dif dif- ferent times They help explain that marvel maryel ot of industry the Ford company compan Make your program so long and so hard that the people who praise you yot will always seem to you to be talking about something very trivIal in comparison with what 01 are really tryIng to do If success comes you will have to work twice as hard to l keep on top top of it Once it gets on top of you then success success suc- suc cess becomes your our failure When a a. man gains recognition the temptation is very great to stol and enjoy the recognition And when he gains reward the temptation is to think hat he has arrived We Ve want to write the word success too soon It Its s should be kept for the epitaph The question Who ought to be boss is like e asking Who Vho ought to sing ten tenor r in the quartet Obviously the man who can sing tenor No 1 long bug boss who wh was not called to that work by nature and development Common sense in business administration appears ap- ap pears pears- to be so unusual that it is news There is power in straightforwardness More men are failures on account ot of success than on account of failure Success is the enemy It b brings those elements with it that minister to our softness It is ia the only enem enemy that can overcome men who are invincible to failure The man who thinks he has done something hasn't many many more things to do The most common mistake of all is the belief that when people begin to buzz it is a sign that something has been definitely and finally pUshed that success has been won We Ve are such simple creat creatures res that we imagine the race is run the moment the cheers are heard Simmered down Mr Fords Ford's program of life seems to be summed up in the words go on Ic I-Ic r realizes that life lie is like rIding a bicycle who ever eyer stops falls Calls down And is not this the law of life everywhere The plant that stops growing dies If the thc earth were were to stop in its orbit it would fall Call into a tho sand pieces We Ve cannot stop Even the conception of Heaven as a place ot of eternal rest and stagnation n is wrong It should be a place of eternal progress John Fiske sa says s 's that the peculiar characteristic of t mankind is his capa capacity ity for development Copyright 1929 McClure Newspaper Syndicate L