MOST IMPORTANT FIGURES: 1. Christ 2. Napolean 3. Henry Ford?

Question

In the 1920s a survey was conducted among college students asking who are the most important ficgures of ALL time. The results came back, Christ first, Napolean second, and Henry Ford (Ford Motors, Assembly Line) third. Do you agree???

Who are today's most influential people?????

Answer 1

I would say it would be
Alexander the Great
Bill Clinton
soccercoach

Coach

Answer 2

Henry Ford isn't the worlds most influential person, even then, I don't think. Part of the problem with the "most influential people of today, or yesterday" is that starting with the industrial revolution, then the car, then airplane, then mechanized war, computers, rockets and the moon, then today, what some people are calling the Data Age....... There have been soooo many people involved, and even with one person for each of the major developements, even in recent history, there would be several names.
Personaly, the Wright Brothers, Tesla, Edison, whoever invented the computer, then PC, are all worthy of note. As all have greately changed the way things are done and happen today.
And, of course, Jesus is and always be influential.

Answer 3

The only time I ever met Henry Ford, he looked at me and probably wondered, "Who is this little s.o.b. fresh out of college?" He wasn't real big on college graduates, and I was one of 50 in the Ford training course in September 1946, working in a huge drafting room at the enormous River Rouge plant near Detroit. One day there was a big commotion at one end of the floor and in walked Henry Ford with Charles Lindbergh. They walked down my aisle asking men what they were doing. I was working on a mechanical drawing of a clutch spring (which drove me out of engineering forever), and I was worried that they'd ask me a question because I didn't know what the hell I was doing — I'd been there only 30 days. I was just awestruck by the fact that there was Colonel Lindbergh with my new boss, coming to shake my hand. The boss was a genius. He was an eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But his mark in history is almost unbelievable. In 1905, when there were 50 start-up companies a year trying to get into the auto business, his backers at the new Ford Motor Co. were insisting that the best way to maximize profits was to build a car for the rich. Almost half a century before Ray Kroc sold a single McDonald's hamburger, the boss invented the dealer-franchise system to sell and service cars. In the same way that all politics is local, he knew that business had to be local. Ford's "road men" became a familiar part of the American landscape. By 1912 there were 7,000 Ford dealers across the country. In much the same fashion, he worked on making sure that an automotive infrastructure developed along with the cars. Just like horses, cars had to be fed — so the boss pushed for gas stations everywhere. And as his tin lizzies bounced over the rutted tracks of the horse age, he campaigned for better roads, which eventually led to an interstate-highway system that is still the envy of the world. Does this have anything to do with pretzels? Or grapes? No. But we are revolutionary by nature.

Answer 4

Most Important Figures:

1) Ghandi
2) Martin Luther King Jr.
3) Abe Lincoln

Answer 5

All Time Top 5 - 1. Albert Einstein 2. Karl Marx 3. Buddha 4. Nelson Mandela 5. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna / Aung San Suu Kyi (tie)

Answer 6

I think to put any of those on the list is a very western-centrist point of view. How was Christ important to the over 1 billion buddhists and other non-Chrsitians in China? Is Christ THAT much more important to ALL of humanity than say Muhammed? And while Napoleon was certainly a very important military leader, I dont know what sort of LASTING impact he has had on the human race.

Answer 7

Christ

Answer 8

I would have to say 1 Christ, 2 Hitler he caused much of what Europe is like today. 3 Ford

After reading some other responses I think Bill Gates would be fourth. I think what Hitler did was horrible but he helped shape Europe and the world.

Answer 9

1. Mohammed
2. Christ
3. Alexander the Great

Answer 10

1 Bush
2 Bin Laden

Answer 11

1. Jesus Christ 2. Abraham Lincoln 3. Lee Iacoca