Henry Ford - Money Quotes

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Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery. You might as well borrow 100,000 lathes as $100,000 if the trouble is inside your business. More lathes will not cure it; neither will more money. Only heavier doses of brains and thought and wise courage can cure. A business that misuses what it has will continue to misuse what it can get.

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Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

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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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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

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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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Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.

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A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

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Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

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The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.

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Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

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The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.

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