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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 43
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
A group of men of speculative turn of mind organized, as soon as I left the electric company, the Detroit Automobile Company to exploit my car. I was the chief engineer and held a small amount of the stock. For three years we continued making cars more or less on the model of my first car. We sold very few of them; I could get no support at all toward making better cars to be sold to the public at large. The whole thought was to make to order and to get the largest price possible for each car. The main idea seemed to be to get the money. And being without authority other than my engineering position gave me, I found that the new company was not a vehicle for realizing my ideas but merely a money-making concern--that did not make much money. In March, 1902, I resigned, determined never again to put myself under orders. The Detroit Automobile Company later became the Cadillac Company under the ownership of the Lelands, who came in subsequently.
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定位：Additional excerpt 43 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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福特一离开电气公司，一群投机心重的人就组织了底特律汽车公司来开发他的车。他是总工程师，持有少量股份。三年里他们继续制造多少类似他第一辆车的车型。卖出去很少；他得不到任何支持去造更好的车卖给大众。整个想法就是按订单生产，每辆车要尽可能高的价格。主要念头似乎是弄钱。除了工程职位赋予的权力，他没有别的权威，于是他发现这家新公司不是实现他想法的工具，而只是一个赚钱的机构——而且没赚到多少钱。1902年3月他辞职，决心再也不把自己置于别人命令之下。底特律汽车公司后来在利兰家族接手后变成了凯迪拉克公司。
上下文
福特在自传中讲述他参与创办底特律汽车公司，因理念不合而辞职的经历。
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你所在的组织，是在实现你的想法，还是只把你当成赚钱工具？你准备忍到什么时候？
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