“Money is only a tool in business.”
Source: My Life and Work (1922), p. 157
Context: 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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American industrialist 1863–1947Related quotes
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
As quoted in News Journal [Mansfield, Ohio] (3 August 1965)
Attributed from posthumous publications
“Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.”
The High Price of Bullion (1810) http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/ricardo/bullion
“Business? Why, it's very simple: business is other people's money.”
Les affaires, c'est bien simple, c'est l'argent des autres.
La Question d'argent (1857), Act II, sc. vii; translation from Frederick Brown Theater and Revolution (New York: Viking Press, 1980) p. 5.
Bengt de Törne Sibelius: A Close-Up (London: Faber and Faber, 1937), p. 94.
Usually quoted as "Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art."
William Lever, quoted in C. Wilson, The History of Unilever, London: Cassell, 1954, vol. 1, p. 187; Requoted in Witzel (2004: 166)
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 4 “Across the Amathel” section 3 (p. 190)
Source: Business Systems Planning and Business Information Control Study: A comparison, 1982, p. 31
