“ Is a man more wise with borrowed money than he is with his own? ”
Henry Ford, My Life and Work (1922). copy citation
Author | Henry Ford |
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Source | My Life and Work |
Topic | money |
Date | 1922 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7213/pg7213-images.html |
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“People will crowd money on you. It is the most subtle temptation the young business man has. But if you do borrow money you are simply giving a stimulant to whatever may be wrong. You feed the disease. Is a man more wise with borrowed money than he is with his own? Not as a usual thing. To borrow under such conditions is to mortgage a declining property.
The time for a business man to borrow money, if ever, is when he does not need it. That is, when he does not need it as a substitute for the things he ought himself to do.”
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