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
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.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing personal dreams and aspirations.
You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.
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.
An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
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.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
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.
Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...
Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.
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