THEY DID NOT GIVE UP #3-HENRY FORD

INTRODUCTION

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HENRY FORD was the founder of Ford Motor Company.He was born on the 30th of July 1863 and died on the 7th of April 1947.He was an American captain of industry and a business magnet.Ford did not develop the automobile or the assembly line , he was responsible for transforming the automobile from an innovation that profoundly shaped the 20th centuryand continue to affect our lives today

       ‘Failure provides the opportunity to begin again,more intelligently’-Henry Ford

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If you grew up with a car at home and when you grow up you buy your own car the way you see cars is different from a person who didn’t get an opportunity to have one worse if that person will never have an opportunity to own a car in his or her life time.The struggle of going around relying on public transport is very difficult l grew up in a family that has never own a car up to now we haven’t got a priviledge to own a car.What l’m trying to say is if you don’t have a car you will learn to appreciate more the importance of having one.For those who have cars if you wake up and the car is not starting and you have to take public transport that day you will appreaciate more the importance of your car.

HIS EARLY LIFE
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Henry was the first born in a family of six. Just like Thomas Edison he grew up on a farm. He attended school in a one room where he showed interest in mechanical. He started at an early age of 12 in spending most of his spare time in a machine shop and there he constructed his first steam engine at the age of 15.l can see intelligence was written all over him.15 years l was in grade 10 or form 3 and l don’t see myself at that time being able to come up with something constructive, but here we talking of Henry Ford who managed to construct a steam engine at that age. As he was living on a farm his mother died and his father wanted him to take over the family farm, but he despised farm work. He later wrote ‘l never had any particular love for the farm it was the mother on the farm that l loved. This reminds me of my situation, l loved my mother so much that we would spend so many holidays together on the farm but when she died l had never set my foot at our farm. I have so many memories of her there.One thing that l couldn’t imagine just like Henry to inherit my mothers farm and live there.

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HE DID NOT GIVE UP
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Bob Casey said’Ford was one of the people who didn’t take a job because he knew how to do it,he often took jobs because he didn’t know how to do them,and they were opooprtunities to learn’
Henry grew up at a farm as we noted earlier on,he could have decided to follow his fathers footsteps of becoming a farmer but Henry was more interested in mechanics and he took a risk in 1679 to leave his fathers farm where he gree up and went to Michigan to become an apprentice at a Car Company.For the next twso years he changed jobs the reason being he wanted to learn more somewhere else. In 1882 he returned home and did a little bit of farming but he concentrated much on operating and servicing steam engines used by farmers and by so doing Ford is demonstrating a character of working on his own rather than for someone else.l personally as l’m writing about Ford l’m truly motivated that l should be able to be initiative and makae my own ideas that will make me survive financially.ln 1891 Ford started a job as a night engineer for the Edison llluminating Company.He did not know anything about electricity but he took the job as a way of learning.He become one of the people who were tring to build horseless carriages. He completed one of his first propelled vehicle the Quadricycle
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In 1898 Ford completed his second car.He persuaded businessmen to support him in taking a risk of starting a company that sells horseless carriages.He knew nothing about running a business ,and learning to try by erroe .The company failed as did the second one.To sustain his wealth he even took a bigger step of building and driving racing cars.ln 1903 Henry incorporated his third automotive venture Ford Motor Company.

The Ford Motor Company demonstrated illustrates Ford most important talent which was an ability to identify and attract outstanding people.He hired a core of young people who shared his vision.From a farm boy to an employer.He made a model T which was sold in America and the sales rise.lt was a car that most people wanted in America.He later on created model A .More models were created up to until he handed his company to his son and at the age of 83 he died.

In conclusion
Ford became great because he did not give up.He explored a lot of things he wanted to see how things works and why they didn’t work.He took interest in everything around himself.He is the brains behind our Ford Ranger parked in our garages.He explored some forms of education he came up with Henry Ford Institute.
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References for further reading
https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/stories-of-innovation/visionaries/henry-ford https://www.ford.co.uk/experience-ford/history-and-heritage
http://www.history.com/topics/henry-ford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford