You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.
Henry FordRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Investing in oneself can yield greater benefits than merely saving money.
Henry Ford emphasizes the importance of self-investment over traditional notions of saving money. He argues that rather than accumulating small amounts of savings, individuals should focus on personal growth, education, and skill mastery, which can lead to more significant long-term returns in life and career.
Themes
Self-InvestmentEducationGrowthFinancial WisdomPersonal Development
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about pursuing personal dreams and aspirations.
More from Henry Ford
All quotes →Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.
Henry FordRead
An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry FordRead
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
Henry FordRead
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Henry FordRead
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
Henry FordRead
Similar quotes
Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.
Max EhrmannRead
As soon as you try to eliminate a thought or emotion, you make it stronger.
Mark MansonRead
Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless
Haile SelassieRead
The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
Carlos CastanedaRead
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.
Stephen CoveyRead
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to be happy, it is foolish to indulge; and if it be a duty to preserve our faculties entire for their proper use, it is criminal. Suspicion is very often an useless pain.
Samuel JohnsonRead