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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 430
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
The business of life is easy or hard according to the skill or the lack of skill displayed in production and distribution. It has been thought that business existed for profit. That is wrong. Business exists for service. It is a profession, and must have recognized professional ethics, to violate which declasses a man. Business needs more of the professional spirit. The professional spirit seeks professional integrity, from pride, not from compulsion. The professional spirit detects its own violations and penalizes them. Business will some day become clean. A machine that stops every little while is an imperfect machine, and its imperfection is within itself. A body that falls sick every little while is a diseased body, and its disease is within itself. So with business. Its faults, many of them purely the faults of the moral constitution of business, clog its progress and make it sick every little while. Some day the ethics of business will be universally recognized, and in that day business will be seen to be the oldest and most useful of all the professions.
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定位:Additional excerpt 430 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
核心是:生意存在的目的是服务,不是赚钱;赚钱只是结果。生活难易取决于生产和分配的技艺高低。福特认为商业是一种职业,该有职业操守,靠自尊而非外力去守,违规要自己认、自己罚。他把企业比作机器和身体:老出毛病,病根在内部,多半是道德结构的问题。等商业伦理被普遍认可,生意会被看作最古老、最有用的行当。
上下文
福特在《我的生活与工作》中反复强调“服务先于利润”,这是他经营福特汽车公司的基本信条。
今日一问
你手头的工作,如果只问“这周赚了多少”,会不会漏掉它到底服务了谁?
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