Self Help
Despite Ford's great power and financial success, it may be that he
has blundered often in the application of the principles through which
he accumulated this power. There is but little doubt that Ford's
methods of mind co-ordination have often been crude; they must
needs have been in the earlier days of this experience, before he
gained the wisdom of application that would naturally go with maturity
of years.
Neither can there be much doubt that Ford's application of the principle of mind chemistry was, at least at the start, the result of a chance alliance with other minds, particularly the mind of Edison.
It is more than probable that Mr Ford's remarkable insight into the laws of nature was first begun as the result of his friendly alliance with his own wife long before he ever met either Mr Edison or Mr Firestone. Many a man who never knows the real source of his success is made by his wife, through application of the Master Mind principle.
Mrs Ford is a most remarkably intelligent woman, and this
author has reason to believe that it was her mind, blended with Mr
Ford's, which gave him his first real start toward power.
It may be mentioned, without in any way depriving Ford of any honor
or glory, that in his earlier days of experience he had to combat the
powerful enemies of illiteracy and ignorance to a greater extent than
did either Edison or Firestone, both of whom were gifted by natural
heredity with a most fortunate aptitude for acquiring and applying
knowledge.
Ford had to hew this talent out of the rough, raw timbers of his hereditary estate. Within an inconceivably short period of time Ford has mastered three of the most stubborn enemies of mankind and transformed them into assets constituting the very foundation of his success. These enemies are:
- Ignorance,
- illiteracy
- and poverty!
Any man who can stay the hand of these three savage forces, much less harness and use them to good account, is well worth close study by the less fortunate individuals. This is an age of INDUSTRIAL POWER in which we are living!
The source of all this POWER is ORGANIZED EFFORT. Not only has the management of industrial enterprises efficiently organized individual workers, but, in many instances, mergers of industry have been effected in such a manner and to the end that these combinations (as in the case of the United States Steel Corporation, for example) have accumulated practically unlimited power.