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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 51

亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导

Take competition; I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly through artificial means. The idea was that there were only a certain number of people who could buy and that it was necessary to get their trade ahead of someone else. Some will remember that later many of the automobile manufacturers entered into an association under the Selden Patent just so that it might be legally possible to control the price and the output of automobiles. They had the same idea that so many trades unions have--the ridiculous notion that more profit can be had doing less work than more. The plan, I believe, is a very antiquated one. I could not see then and am still unable to see that there is not always enough for the man who does his work; time spent in fighting competition is wasted; it had better be spent in doing the work. There are always enough people ready and anxious to buy, provided you supply what they want and at the proper price--and this applies to personal services as well as to goods.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213
定位:Additional excerpt 51 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

福特谈到竞争:当时人们把竞争视为威胁,认为好经理要通过人为手段获取垄断来绕过对手。这种想法是,能买车的人就那么多,必须抢在别人前面拿到他们的生意。后来许多汽车制造商加入塞尔登专利协会,就是为了能合法控制汽车的价格和产量。他们和许多工会一样,抱着一个荒唐的念头:少干活比多干活更能多赚钱。福特认为这种计划非常过时。他当时和现在都看不出,为什么认真工作的人会没有足够的机会;把时间花在对付竞争上是浪费,不如用来做工作。只要你提供人们想要的东西、价格合适,总会有足够多的人愿意买——商品如此,个人服务也如此。

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20世纪初美国汽车业竞争激烈,塞尔登专利协会曾试图垄断市场,福特对此持批判态度,主张靠做好产品和服务取胜。

今日一问

你花在“打败对手”上的精力,有没有超过花在把产品做好上的精力?

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