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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 183
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
Having these facts in hand we announced and put into operation in January, 1914, a kind of profit-sharing plan in which the minimum wage for any class of work and under certain conditions was five dollars a day. At the same time we reduced the working day to eight hours--it had been nine--and the week to forty-eight hours. This was entirely a voluntary act. All of our wage rates have been voluntary. It was to our way of thinking an act of social justice, and in the last analysis we did it for our own satisfaction of mind. There is a pleasure in feeling that you have made others happy--that you have lessened in some degree the burdens of your fellow-men--that you have provided a margin out of which may be had pleasure and saving. Good-will is one of the few really important assets of life. A determined man can win almost anything that he goes after, but unless, in his getting, he gains good will he has not profited much.
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定位：Additional excerpt 183 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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有了这些测算基础，福特在1914年1月宣布并实施了一项利润分享计划：任何工种在特定条件下最低日薪五美元，同时把工作日从九小时减到八小时，周工时降到四十八小时。福特强调这完全是自愿的，不是被逼的。他认为这是社会正义，但说到底也是为了自己心里痛快——看到别人因你而轻松一点、能有点余钱和储蓄，这种愉快是真实的。他说， goodwill（善意）是人生少数真正重要的资产之一；一个人再能争，如果争的过程中没赢得善意，其实也没占到什么便宜。
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福特回顾1914年著名的“五美元日薪”和八小时工作制的宣布，强调这是自愿的社会正义之举。
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