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HENRY FORD - STORY OF SUCCESS: How Purpose, Vision & Perseverance Built an Industrial Empire
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- Dec 22, 2025
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(00:00:00) HENRY FORD’S OWN STORY (00:04:50) 1. One Summer’s Day (00:12:32) 2. Mending a Watch (00:21:10) 3. The First Job (00:28:21) 4. An Exacting Routine (00:36:03) 5. Getting the Machine Idea (00:44:38) 6. Back to the Farm (00:53:22) 7. The Road to Hymen (01:01:10) 8. Making a Farm Efficient (01:08:45) 9. The Lure of the Machine Shops (01:15:19) 10. “Why Not Use Gasoline?” (01:22:59) 11. Back to Detroit (01:29:37) 12. Learning About Electricity (01:36:20) 13. Eight Hours, but Not for Himself (01:43:51) 14. Struggling with the First Car (01:51:34) 15. A Ride in the Rain (01:59:09) 16. Enter Coffee Jim (02:06:45) 17. Another Eight Years (02:13:58) 18. Winning a Race (02:22:08) 19. Raising Capital (02:29:50) 20. Clinging to a Principle (02:37:50) 21. Early Manufacturing Trials (02:47:01) 22. Automobiles for the Masses (02:54:21) 23. Fighting the Seldon Patent (03:02:01) 24. “The Greatest Good to the Greatest Number" (03:09:46) 25. Five Dollars a Day Minimum (03:18:24) 26. Making It Pay (03:27:05) 27. The Importance of a Job (03:34:52) 28. A Great Educational Institution (03:42:24) 29. The European War (03:50:01) 30. The Best Preparedness HENRY FORD’S OWN STORY: How Purpose, Vision & Perseverance Built an Industrial Empire - Henry Ford (1917). Henry Ford’s Own Story offers an authentic, firsthand account of the life, principles, and struggles of the man who turned the automobile from a curiosity into a necessity and reshaped modern industry. It traces his journey from a Michigan farm boy with a fascination for machinery to the founder of the Ford Motor Company — a man whose vision made cars affordable and industry humane. More than a simple autobiography, it is a chronicle of Ford’s ideals: hard work, self-reliance, efficiency, fair wages, and the belief that busin…