Great People born near another Great People

Teman-teman, saya melihat sebuah pola bahwa orang-orang sukses dilahirkan dari orang-orang sukses juga...

Sebenarnya ada banyak contoh yang saya lihat, puluhan... Tapi hari ini saya mau bagikan cerita tentang Henry Ford... Ia mengidolakan Thomas Alva Edison... Bahkan ia pernah bekerja di perusahaan Edison...

Selamat menikmati,

Ferdy D.Savio

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Henry Ford was born in 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan, four weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg. As a boy, he had an instinct for gadgets and machines but little use for literature or history, which he considered "more or less bunk." He quit school at the age of 15 and soon headed for the big city.

By the 1890s, Ford had a good job as chief engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit, but the ambitious young workaholic had his eye on even bigger things. The nation was caught in a "bicycle craze," and the sight of millions of people wheeling around the country gave Ford ideas. So did the "Silent Otto" internal combustion engine, which he saw demonstrated in Detroit at the decade's start.

Later at the concluding banquet of the 1896 Edison Illuminating Companies Convention, Ford was thrilled to meet his idol, Thomas Edison, whom he considered "the greatest man in the world." Edison asked the young man to explain his machine, and Ford obliged by sketching out the particulars on the back of a menu. Impressed, Edison banged his fist on the table and exclaimed, "Young man, that's the thing! You have it. Keep at it." Later in life, Ford recalled, "That bang on the table meant worlds to me."

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