“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”

American industrialist and business magnate

Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate. He lived from 1863 to 1947, and is best known as the founder of the Ford Motor Company and a key figure in the rise of mass automobile production. Ford is associated with the system that became known as Fordism, which helped make cars affordable for many middle-class Americans. In 1911, he received a patent for the transmission mechanism used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles.