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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 437
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
Freeing ourselves from the petty sort of destructive competition frees us from many set notions. We are too closely tied to old methods and single, one-way uses. We need more mobility. We have been using certain things just one way, we have been sending certain goods through only one channel--and when that use is slack, or that channel is stopped, business stops, too, and all the sorry consequences of "depression" set in. Take corn, for example. There are millions upon millions of bushels of corn stored in the United States with no visible outlet. A certain amount of corn is used as food for man and beast, but not all of it. In pre-Prohibition days a certain amount of corn went into the making of liquor, which was not a very good use for good corn. But through a long course of years corn followed those two channels, and when one of them stopped the stocks of corn began to pile up. It is the money fiction that usually retards the movement of stocks, but even if money were plentiful we could not possibly consume the stores of food which we sometimes possess.
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定位:Additional excerpt 437 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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摆脱那种小气的、破坏性的竞争,能让我们从许多固定观念中解放出来。我们太固守老方法和单一用途了,需要更多灵活性。比如玉米,过去只走两条路:给人吃和做饲料,禁酒令前还做酒。一条路断了,玉米就堆积如山。其实玉米还能做燃料,这样销路就多了。不要只靠一条渠道,多开几条,一条堵了还有别的。
上下文
福特以玉米为例,说明经济需要多样化的出路,避免单一渠道造成停滞。
今日一问
你目前依赖的“单一渠道”是什么?可以如何开辟第二、第三条路?
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