Henry Ford Quotes

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. Its value is in the necessities of the animal man. It is so much warmth, so much bread, so much water, so much land.

Now, Gold and Silver contribute very little in their own nature to our Lives, for which all Earthly Things seem to have been created. Yet Men, as if they would make Nature asham'd of this, have agreed to make those Metals of equal vaue to all other things, to make 'em the Price and Measrue of all, and the Instruments of changing and exchanging whatever can be found good in this World.

If Money were given to a People in greater Quantity than there was a Demand for, Money would fall in its value; but if only given equal to the Demand, it will not fall in value.

The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable.

The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.

Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce; but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another

The Power the Magistrat [head of government] has to alter the Money in its Denomination or Fineness, takes away the chief Quality for which Silver was made Money

Money is property; it is not speech.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.

You have to put a market value on what you do.

It is what you can do with your money that matters because money has no value in itself.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.