Zero to Billions: Beginning, Beliefs, Behavior, Billionaire or Bankrupt by Paul Chan

Zero to Billions: Beginning, Beliefs, Behavior, Billionaire or Bankrupt by Paul Chan

Author:Paul Chan [Chan, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-02-24T05:00:00+00:00


EDUCATION Dropped out of school at age 17

BEGINNING

1. Ford was born in 1863 Greenfield Township, Michigan, United States.

2. His father was an Irish immigrant farmer.

3. In 1876, when he was 12 his mother died. He was devastated. His dad expected him to take over the family farm. He despised farm work and left school at age 17 to become an apprentice in the machine shop of Dryout Engine Work.

4. He left to work as an apprentice machinist in Detroit from 1879 to 1882.

5. He returned to Dearborn to tender the family farm and later was hired by Westinghouse to service their steam engine. In 1893 he became Chief Engineer with Edison Illuminating Company. Now he has money and time to experiment with gasoline engine

6. In 1899, after he completed Ford Quadricycle, a self-propelled vehicle, he resigned from Edison Company and founded the Detroit Automobile Company. The low quality and high price eventually drove him to bankruptcy.

7. Ford would bankrupt 4 more before he succeeded.



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