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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 81
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
The temptation to stop and hang on to what one has is quite natural. I can entirely sympathize with the desire to quit a life of activity and retire to a life of ease. I have never felt the urge myself but I can comprehend what it is--although I think that a man who retires ought entirely to get out of a business. There is a disposition to retire and retain control. It was, however, no part of my plan to do anything of that sort. I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more--as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service. I had been planning every day through these years toward a universal car. The public had given its reactions to the various models. The cars in service, the racing, and the road tests gave excellent guides as to the changes that ought to be made, and even by 1905 I had fairly in mind the specifications of the kind of car I wanted to build. But I lacked the material to give strength without weight. I came across that material almost by accident.
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定位:Additional excerpt 81 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
人想停下来守住已有成果,这很自然。福特说他完全理解那种想退出忙碌生活、过安逸日子的愿望,他自己从没这种冲动,但能明白。不过他认为,一个人若真要退休,就该彻底退出企业,不能退下来还抓着控制权。当时很多人想退休又保留控制,福特没这么打算。他把公司的进步看作邀请他做更多事,说明他们到了可以真正提供服务的阶段。那些年他天天想着造一款大众车,公众对各样车型的反应、在用车、赛车和路试都给了很好的改进指引,到1905年他心里已大致有想造的车的规格,只是缺一种既坚固又轻的材料,后来几乎偶然找到了。
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亨利·福特在自传《我的生活与工作》中回顾自己创业和研发T型车的经历,这段话讲他面对退休诱惑和继续进取的选择。
今日一问
你是否有过“退下来但还抓着控制权”的念头?如果真要退,你愿意彻底放手吗?
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