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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 50
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
The money influence--the pressing to make a profit on an "investment"--and its consequent neglect of or skimping of work and hence of service showed itself to me in many ways. It seemed to be at the bottom of most troubles. It was the cause of low wages--for without well-directed work high wages cannot be paid. And if the whole attention is not given to the work it cannot be well directed. Most men want to be free to work; under the system in use they could not be free to work. During my first experience I was not free--I could not give full play to my ideas. Everything had to be planned to make money; the last consideration was the work. And the most curious part of it all was the insistence that it was the money and not the work that counted. It did not seem to strike any one as illogical that money should be put ahead of work--even though everyone had to admit that the profit had to come from the work. The desire seemed to be to find a short cut to money and to pass over the obvious short cut--which is through the work.
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定位：Additional excerpt 50 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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福特发现，金钱的影响力——急着从“投资”里赚利润——导致人们忽视或敷衍工作，进而忽视服务，这几乎是大多数麻烦的根源。它造成低工资，因为如果没有方向正确的工作，就付不起高工资；而如果全部注意力不放在工作上，工作就不可能方向正确。大多数人都想自由地工作，但在当时的制度下他们自由不了。福特第一次创业时也不自由，无法充分发挥自己的想法，一切都得围着赚钱转，工作反倒成了最后才考虑的事。最奇怪的是，人们坚持认为重要的是钱而不是工作，似乎没人觉得把钱放在工作前面不合逻辑——尽管大家都承认利润必须来自工作。人们想找通往金钱的捷径，却偏偏绕过了最明显的捷径：通过工作。
上下文
福特在《我的生活与工作》中批评当时企业界普遍把金钱置于工作之上的风气，这与他后来提高工人工资、强调服务的理念一脉相承。
今日一问
你手头的事，是把工作本身做好放在第一位，还是先想着它能带来多少钱？
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