A few years back, Ford decided to produce his now
famous V-8 motor. He chose to build an engine with
the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and
instructed his engineers to produce a design for the
engine. The design was placed on paper, but the
engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply
impossible to cast an eight-cylinder gas engine block
in one piece.
Ford said, ‘Produce it anyway.’
‘But,’ they replied, ‘it's impossible!’
‘Go ahead,’ Ford commanded, ‘and stay on the job
until you succeed no matter how much time is
required.’
The engineers went ahead. There was nothing else for
them to do, if they were to remain on the Ford staff.
Six months went by, nothing happened. Another six
months passed, and still nothing happened. The
engineers tried every conceivable plan to carry out
the orders, but the thing seemed out of the question;
‘impossible!’
At the end of the year Ford checked with his
engineers, and again they informed him they had found
no way to carry out his orders.
‘Go right ahead,’ said Ford, ‘I want it, and I'll
have it.’
They went ahead, and then, as if by a stroke ofmagic, the secret was discovered.
The Ford DETERMINATION had won once more!
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