Henry Ford, every mention

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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Henry Ford comes up

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▶ 2:36:56 Shane Parrish Henry Ford turned up one day at Ormond Beach without an appointment. 3 times in the scene

▶ 17:07 Shane Parrish Henry Ford's Model T had made the automobile affordable for ordinary people, and once Americans had cars, they didn't want to get out of them, not for anything, and certainly not to eat.

▶ 20:29 Shane Parrish He later admitted, I do not recall ever seeing Henry Ford's car about the streets of Detroit, and I have no recollection of having seen Mr. 3 times in the scene
▶ 33:30 Shane Parrish In 19 oh five, Harvey learned that Henry Ford planned to build 2000 cars priced at 500 dollars each. 8 times in the scene
▶ 38:24 Shane Parrish He took inspiration from Ford's ongoing battle against the Selden patent, a sweeping claim that essentially demanded royalties on all gasoline-powered automobiles. 6 times in the scene
▶ 50:25 Shane Parrish As the company expanded nationally, Harvey initially appointed independent distributors with exclusive territories, but by 1913, he realized many distributors lacked his and Ford's vision for the automotive future.
▶ 53:26 Shane Parrish Their factories nearly tripled in size within five years, including a facility dedicated exclusively to producing a single tire size, an early application of Harvey's simplification philosophy that mirrored Ford's own manufacturing focus. 3 times in the scene
▶ 1:10:25 Shane Parrish Beyond business success, Harvey became legendary for his friendships with Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.
▶ 1:12:58 Shane Parrish So there's an interesting anecdote in the book about Henry Ford that I think is worth highlighting, and I'm going to read you a direct excerpt here. 4 times in the scene

▶ 10:03 Shane Parrish He was also a student of business history and capital markets, studying outliers like Henry Ford and companies like General Motors.

▶ 39:27 Shane Parrish Just as Henry Ford didn't just build a better horse carriage, but gave people a new way to think about distance itself.

▶ 54:41 Shane Parrish Henry Ford's assembly line completely transformed manufacturing, dramatically increasing productivity.

▶ 40:47 Alan Mulally Or Ford, uh, Henry Ford was opening the highways to all mankind.

▶ 11:04 Alan Mulally The great-grandson of Henry Ford?
▶ 24:04 Alan Mulally So, for the Henry Ford never thought
▶ 53:09 Alan Mulally Or Ford, uh, Henry Ford was opening the highways to all mankind.

▶ 25:45 Tobi Lütke So like, you look at Henry Ford's, uh, factories or, or, you know, something like Bethlehem Steel or whatever, and essentially you, you have this incredibly, um, um, long chains of cause and effect where, um, you know, at one point you… 2 times in the scene

▶ 53:21 Rory Sutherland I mean, Henry Ford created the two-day weekend so that people would buy cars. 2 times in the scene

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