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What Does Model T Fords And Southwest Airlines Have To Do With Owning Your Own Business?

People were making cars before Henry Ford came along.  But they were expensive.  Why?  Because they were made by hand.  They were more status symbols than a necessity.

Henry didn’t invent the automobile or the assembly line, but he did use the assembly line concept to mass produce cars. Once he got his factory going, he was making more cars than the other 299 auto manufacturers.  When the last Model T rolled off the assembly line, Ford was making a car every 24 seconds.  This was back in 1927.

Ford’s first year of production sold over 10 thousand Model T’s.  Over a period of nineteen years, Ford sold over 15 million cars.  How did he sell so many?

Because he was selling them for about $800 a piece.

That’s how Henry Ford changed the world.  He made the automobile affordable to the masses.  He democratized the car.

Way back in 1967, Rollin King and Herb Kelleher sat down over a napkin, drew a triangle connecting Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, talked about starting an airline that was fun and cheap, and changed the history of air travel.  Back then, if you wanted to get from city to city too far to drive, you took a bus. 

Unless you were rich. 

King and Kelleher’s new airline, Air Southwest was going to change all that.  Of course, the airline industry wasn’t thrilled, and put up a good fight.  But Victor Hugo said, "Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

On June 18, 1971, Southwest Airlines took it’s first flight through that triangle on that napkin – Dallas, Houston, San Antonio. 

Today, Southwest Airlines is one of largest and the most profitable airlines in the US.  They fly over 100 million people a year to 66 cities around America, over 3,200 times a day.

What did they really do?  They made air travel available to the masses.  Southwest Airlines democratized air travel.

After what has happened with the automobile, and air travel, do you believe someday someone will come along and democratize space travel?  If you live long enough, your vacation could be a trip to the moon or Mars.

So what does all this have to do with owning your own business?

For the general public, I think their idea of starting your own business is limited to the elite few.  People with degrees, and connections, and money.  Lots of money.  Or the ability to get it.  At one time, that was true.  But not now.

The internet changed the way we do business forever.  Now it’s possible to have your business up and running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  You can even do business practically anywhere in the world, and from any where in the world. 

While today’s technology, particularly the internet, has made so many things possible, it can still be expensive to run a business – even an online business.  In any business, there are so many aspects and associated costs.  An internet based business is no different.  So even an internet business can be just as expensive, risky, difficult, and stressful as a traditional, conventional business.

Unless you can find a business model that combines the unique advantages of the internet, affiliate programs, and franchises.  And makes it all accessible to the masses – not just the elite or rich.

That’s what we do at Paradise Development.  We democratize free enterprise.  That’s our mission.

We want to keep free enterprise alive by building an army of business owners.  Within the masses of humanity, there are entrepreneurs that have yet to succeed or even start their own business because of lack of money, training, or support.

You might be one of those people who thought you would never be able to own your own business.  Just like there used to be people who thought they could never be able to own a car, or afford air travel.  But technology and Ford and Southwest Airlines changed things. They democratized things that was once only accessible to the privileged few. 

Now you can be a part of history.  Maybe not for the history of the world, but how about just your family; your legacy?  There are places a horse and buggy can’t take you.  You’re going to need a car or a plane.  Or a business of your own.  What’s holding you back?  Free enterprise has been democratized.

If you want to know more about how we can help you become an entrepreneur, give me a call at 808-306-0749 or email me at jgsmith.pd@gmail.com