Henry Ford was a ferocious entrepreneur, producing 15 million Model T cars between 1908 and 1927. The only car to sell more was the VW Beetle. 

In 1916, Mr Ford stated in the Chicago Tribune: “History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today.”¹