The most important formula of success - knowledge how to treat people. Theodor Roosevelt
For certain almost each of us heard a surname Chrysler. It belongs to the person who got involved in an unpleasant incident of America as the ingenious manager, the founder and auto maker. Walter Percy really knew Chrysler how to treat people as to operate them and to organize an optimum working environment.
Walter Chrysler was born in 1875 in the small town of the State of Kansas in the United States of America. Since the childhood of the boy interested engines and he dreamed to become a driver. And in 18 years Walter himself, by means of self-made tools collected engine model which went and signaled.
For implementation of the cherished dream (to seize the driver's profession) Walter Chrysler got a job the cleaner in railway depot. Quickly enough hardworking and talented guy was noticed, Walter became the pupil of the mechanic and then, by 22 years, he received the certificate of the qualified mechanic.
Walter Chrysler quickly moved ahead on a career ladder and soon already held a post of the general managing director of the railway company American Locomotive Co.
His life was changed when he visited an automobile exhibition and fell in love with expensive car. In 1908 Walter Chrysler was already able to afford to buy it. But on this smart purchase the love for cars did not end. Having lit up new passion for automotive industry, Walter is dismissed from the prestigious post and gets a job the ordinary manager in the company on production of the General Motors cars. And the salary which to it began to be paid when he settled the manager was several times less, than on last places of work (Walter Chrysler did not sit in one railway company as soon as it reached a maximum in professional growth in one company, it passed into another).
For 4 years of work in this company the talented manager Walter Chrysler promotes increase in the production of cars in the company from 20 cars to 550 cars a day! In the twenties last century Chrysler on which account there was already any one million dollars by this time leaves General Motors. He creates the firm in which he gathers under the management the strongest team of three autodesigners - Fred Zeder, Owen Skelton and Karl Brir.
The ingenious head and professional inventors of cars create the first model of the Chrysler Six car and in a year the income of the company approaches 17 million dollars. In two years after opening of the Chrysler company, it comes to the 5th place on production of cars, and in a year to Walter to Chrysler the honourable nomination Person of Year is awarded.
Since then the Chrysler company is one of key leaders in the industry of automotive industry of the USA.
Amazing vital success of Walter of Chrysler shows us as the ordinary American worker owing to the hobby, diligence and organizing abilities became not only one of the richest people of that time, but also immortalized the name in the industry of automotive industry. For the rest of the natural Walter Chrysler did not consider himself someone special, millions of dollars on the account never prevented it to create a friendly working atmosphere in collective. In 1935 Walter Chrysler left a post of the president of the company and focused on writing of the autobiographical book Life of the American Worker.
Remember, your life and success in it depends only on you. The purposeful person finds means and when cannot find, creates them. Good luck!