Much has been written about Henry Ford, but throughout his life he remained silent, speaking neither in the press nor in the literary field. The book he wrote from the first day of publication is very popular: it has survived more than a hundred publications, has been translated into dozens of languages, generations of entrepreneurs have grown up on it. You hold in your hands not just a brilliant story of the “father” of the US automotive industry about your life, this book captures the experience of the foundation of an unprecedented scale of production. Henry Ford talks in detail about the origins of his business, the strategies that allowed him to become one of the richest and most successful entrepreneurs of the 20th century, and the lessons he learned by creating a great company. For the first time in Russian, the full text of the book .