Henry Ford on Bootstrapping, Funding, & Going Public

Posted on June 9, 2012 by zzz_zwp

Amy Hoy reviews excerpts about bootstrapping, funding and going public from Henry Ford’s autobiography “My Lifea nd Work”.

“The most surprising feature of business as it was conducted was the large attention given to finance and the small attention to service. That seemed to me to be reversing the natural process which is that the money should come as the result of work and not before the work…”

“… My idea was then and still is that if a man did his work well, the price he would get for that work, the profits and all financial matters, would care for themselves and that a business ought to start small and build itself up and out of its earnings.”

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Henry Ford on Bootstrapping, Funding, & Going Public

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