William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money.

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that much about it. I wouldn't fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn't interest me right now.

Time is money.

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.

To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world.

I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

Gold that's put to use more gold begets.