David Halberstam amerikai

Late in the life of the first Henry Ford a boy named John Dahlinger, who more than likely was Ford's illegitimate son, had a discussion with the old man about education and found himself frustrated by Ford's very narrow view of what schooling should be. „But sir,” Dahlinger told Ford, „these are different times – this is the modern age, and -” Ford cut him off. „Young man,” he said, „I invented the modern age.”

4. The founder. 67. oldal (William Morrow, 1986)

There was a growing anger, and the evenings were more likely than not to go sour. The car men intoned a lament: They had been forsaken by their customers, who had no sense of loyalty; betrayed by their government, from which they felt alienated; undercut by the Japanese, whose skills few of them still would accept, claiming that the Japanese were good only at fit-and-finish (tight doors and good paint jobs). The lament swelled: the Arabs, the workers, Ralph Nader. They were like men of true faith whose god had suddenly failed them.

3. Detroit's bleak winter of 1982. 52. oldal (William Morrow, 1986)

To William Ford, on his own land at last, free of the old country, the farm was liberating; to Henry Ford, bored and restless, it was like a prison. (Cows came to symbolize his hatred of the farm. They were lazy, and they lay around all the time. He spent an entire lifetime railing against them. „The cow is the crudest machine in the world,” he once said. On another occasion he said that if people would destroy all the cows in the world, they would eliminate the sources of war. When his company became large, he had his labs working constantly to find substitutes for dairy products.)

4. The founder. 73. oldal (William Morrow, 1986)

One day Ikeda came to their regular meeting and announced that the worst of the inflation was over and, with it, the worst of the black-marketeering. The recovery, Ikeda said, had finally begun.
„How do you know?” asked a suspicious Dodge.
„Because the police chief of Tokyo told me so today.”
„And how does the police chief of Tokyo know?”
„Oh, he said he was sure that the recovery had begun because for the first time in years, Tokyo's thieves have started to stealing money from people again. Until now, the money was not worth enough to steal.”

6. The victor. 128-129. oldal (William Morrow, 1986)