“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.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
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Attributed from posthumous publications
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David Ricardo (1772–1823) British political economist, broker and politician
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.”
Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895) French writer and dramatist, son of the homonym writer and dramatist
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.
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) Finnish composer of the late Romantic period
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, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician
William Lever, quoted in C. Wilson, The History of Unilever, London: Cassell, 1954, vol. 1, p. 187; Requoted in Witzel (2004: 166)
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 4 “Across the Amathel” section 3 (p. 190)
John Zachman (1934) American computer scientist
Source: Business Systems Planning and Business Information Control Study: A comparison, 1982, p. 31
