http://librivox.org/my-life-and-work-by-henry-ford/ My Life and Work by Henry Ford (1863-1947) Henry Ford profiles the events that shaped his personal philosophy, and the challenges he overcame on the road to founding the Ford Motor Company. Throughout his memoir, he stresses the importance of tangible service and physical production over relative value as judged by profits and money. He measures the worth of a business or government by the service it provides to all, not the profits in dollars it accumulates. He also makes the point that only service can provide for human needs, as opposed to laws or rules which can only prohibit specific actions and do not provide for the necessaries of life. Ford applies his reasoning to the lending system, transportation industry, international trade and interactions between labor and management. For each, he proposes solutions that maximize service and provide goods at the lowest cost and highest quality. He analyzes from a purely material viewpoint, going as far as to argue that the need for a good feeling in work environments may reflect a character flaw or weakness. However, his unflinching focus on the ultimate material products and necessities of life provide clever insights in how he created an efficient and flexible system for providing reliable transportation for the average person. (Summary by LivelyHive) ---- you can download a text file and read it... or you can download the audio files and listen to them. free of charge. I thought some of you folks might be interested in it. Take care, -W p.s. for those of you that like to read stuff or have a fancy portable reader device... http://calibre-ebook.com/download This calibre program is really great for managing and converting text files to different formats.
Wow, thanks! If you have iTunes, you can get the RSS feed then quickly and easily download the whole audiobook.
A couple people have pm'ed me asking how to get the iTunes feed for the entire book. If you look down in the middle of the page, you'll see the links that say: RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes Click on the one to subscribe in iTunes and iTunes will automatically startup and download the first chapter. Double click into the podcast and you can download them all at once, then sync them to an ipod or iphone. I've already listened to most of the book with my iphone while I'm welding. BTW, you could also click in the link I pasted above.
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