Sublime

At his urging, Hyatt was soon producing new antifriction bearings for automobiles. At age 24, he became the president of Hyatt, where he supervised all aspects of the company’s business. Hyatt bearings became a standard in the automobile industry, and the company grew rapidly under his leadership.

HE was unorthodox in thought but puritanical in personal conduct. He had a restless mind but was capable of prolonged, concentrated work. He hated indolence but had to be confronted by a challenging problem before his interest was aroused. He was contemptuous of money-making, of money-makers and profit seekers, yet he made more money and greater pr

Where Ford’s approach was driven by practical matters, Taylor’s approach was more scientific in nature, giving rise to the term “scientific management.” In layperson’s terms, where Ford treated people like cogs in a machine, Taylor approached workers as if they were machines themselves—machines that could be optimized for maximum efficiency, given

Henry Ford said:

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

Y Combinator disagrees:

“Talk to your users.”

It was destined to make motor transport universal, to attain mass production, to demonstrate the superiority of an economy of abundance over one of scarcity, and to begin the elevation of a standard of living to a height never before dreamed of.

A verdadeira simplicidade é a que nos proporciona melhores serviços com maior soma de conforto.

The GM model took the vehicle-as-status-symbol, an idea as old as wheeled vehicles themselves, to a new level. “You are what you drive,” the importance of design, annual model updates, buying on credit, and upgrading often—these ideas have all persisted into the modern era. They all began with GM in the 1920s. Ford reinvented how cars were made, bu

At the end of 1939, our first full year in business, our sales totaled $5,369 and we had made $1,563 in profits. We would show a profit every year thereafter.

Stephens was the president of the railroad, which was a wholly American-owned stock company with its main office in the old Tontine Building on Wall Street. The capitalization was a million dollars.