Henry Ford needed encouragement

Here is a statue of Edison at his summer home in Fort Myers. Surrounding it is the largest banyan tree in the continental US. Edison and Ford both had adjacent summer homes here, which today are the area's biggest tourist attraction. You must see them if you are here, it is amazing all that Edison invented- the electric light bulb, motion pictures, much improved batteries, phonographs, stock tickers, and countless other things we take for granted today.

Edison was about 20 years older than Henry Ford, who looked up to him. History tells us that the unknown Ford met the famous Edison when Ford was working on producing his first car. Edison was intrigued with Ford's ideas for his car (especially his fossil fuel internal combustion engine), and encouraged him to keep at it. Ford said that this encouragement from his idol kept him going through dark and difficult days until he created the model A.
Ford ultimately became famous and much richer than Edison, and they became great friends. But Ford never forgot Edison's encouragement when he was unknown and needed it.

If Ford needed this, how much more do we? Let's encourage each other to keep going.