Fortune magazine named auto magnate Henry Ford the businessman of the century. Fortune said it made the decision regardless of his personal failings, noting that in Ford’s later years, “he surrounded himself with goons, spouted ugly anti-Semitic bile and left his company in terrible shape.”
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