"Old men are always advising young men..." - Quote by Henry Ford
Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.
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“Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.”
“Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience”
“Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.”
More on Investment
“Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.”
“If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.”
“The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.”