"Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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“All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.”
“You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.”
“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.”
More on Poverty
“When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.”
“You can't help the poor by being one of them.”
“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition”
More on Economics
“No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.”
“It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.”
“That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.”