When Henry ford decided to produce his 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 in one 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 engine-block in one piece.
“Go ahead.” Ford commanded, “And stay on the job until you succeed, no matter how much time is required.”
“动手做。”福特一声令下， “不论花多少时间，做到交差为止！”
The engineers went ahead. There was nothing else for them to do, if they were to remain on the ford staff. Six months passed and 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.
过了一年，福特的工程师们都没有进展，他们再次告诉他，他们想不出有什么办法可以做到的指示。
“go right head,” said ford, “I want it, and I’ll have it.”
“继续做，”福特说。“我要八汽缸引擎，就一定要做到！”
They went ahead, and then, as if by a stroke of magic, the secret was discovered.
他们继续努力，然后仿佛如有神助似的，做法出笼了。
The ford determination had won once more!
福特的决心又打赢了一仗。
This story may not be described with minute accuracy, but the sum and substance of it is correct. Deduce from it, you who wish to think and grow rich, the secret of the ford millions, if you can. You’ll not have to look very far.
Henry ford was successful, because he understood and applied the principles of success. One of these is desire: knowing out the lines in which the secret of his stupendous achievement have been described. If you can do this, if you can lay your finger on the particular group of principles which made Henry ford rich, you can equal his achievements in almost any calling for which you are suited.
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