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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 48
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
And also I noticed a tendency among many men in business to feel that their lot was hard--they worked against a day when they might retire and live on an income--get out of the strife. Life to them was a battle to be ended as soon as possible. That was another point I could not understand, for as I reasoned, life is not a battle except with our own tendency to sag with the downpull of "getting settled." If to petrify is success all one has to do is to humour the lazy side of the mind but if to grow is success, then one must wake up anew every morning and keep awake all day. I saw great businesses become but the ghost of a name because someone thought they could be managed just as they were always managed, and though the management may have been most excellent in its day, its excellence consisted in its alertness to its day, and not in slavish following of its yesterdays. Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled--he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.
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定位：Additional excerpt 48 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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福特认为，很多人把生活看成一场苦战，盼着早日退休、靠积蓄过活，他对此很不理解。在他看来，生活不是跟外界斗，而是跟自己的惰性斗——人总想“安定下来”，结果就往下滑。如果成功就是僵化不变，那顺着懒散就行；但如果成功是成长，就得每天早晨重新醒来，一整天保持清醒。他见过大企业只剩个空名，就因为管理者以为可以照老办法一直管下去；当年的优秀在于对当时保持警觉，而不是死守昨天。生活不是地点，是旅程；自以为安顿下来的人，其实多半在倒退。一切都在流动，人也一样：可能还住同一条街同一个门牌，但住在里面的早已不是同一个人。
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亨利·福特在自传《我的生活与工作》中回顾自己经营企业的体会，强调不断进取、反对固步自封。
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