Henry Ford Money Quotations

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

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.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

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.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.

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

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.

All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.

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.

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.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it