"We try to pay a man what..." - Quote by Henry Ford
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.
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“A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.”
“Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.”
“We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.”
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“If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.”
“If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.”
“Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.”