Henry Ford Quotes About Money
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The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
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The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
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Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
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All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.
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It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
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Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
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Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.
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I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.
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We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.
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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it
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Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
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Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.
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