Henry Ford Quotes on Money & Wealth (14 Quotes)

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

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

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

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

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

One's own employees ought to be one's own best customers. Paying high wages is behind the prosperity of this country.

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

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

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

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

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.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

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.

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.