Invest Your Money
Here’s where you should invest some of your money – in
financial institutions. So that it provides a larger capital pool for
successful people to borrow and start big businesses that you, at
first, can’t start. They can build big factories and employ lots of
people. There needs to be a collection of capital so that people can
borrow it. And guess what they will do when they borrow your
money – pay you for the use of it. So you teach kids how to put
their money in savings accounts, in financial institutions.
In Australia a man said to me, “I’m recommending everybody
put their money in gold, take it out of all the banks.” I said, “Then
you will bankrupt the country. You can’t do something and teach it
to everybody else if it’s going to bankrupt the country. You can’t be
totally self-protective. You must care and feed the goose that lays
the golden eggs. If you’re going to drive on society’s streets, and
walk on society’s sidewalks and indulge in society’s commerce and
goods and services in the community, you’ve got to do your share to
care and feed the goose. You can’t grab yours and put it in gold
and hide it and put it in the ground. If everybody did that we would
have no society. So you can’t teach something that if everybody did
it, would wreck the whole thing.” He said, “Well, I never thought
about that.” And I said, “That’s obvious.” You must think and
ponder what’s going to help all of society. Somebody says, well I’m
going to grab everything I’ve got and barricade myself, go off to a
cave in the mountains, and wait with a gun. Well, if everybody did
that, then the world would be over and God would have to start all
over again. Which he’s done on occasions. But most people didn’t
enjoy that process.
So, what’s going to help everybody? What’s going to help
commerce? What can I do as my part on taxes and my part on
savings, and my part on helping financial institutions that will build
businesses and employ more people and keep the health of the
country going and alive? You just have to think. Not just about
yourself. Self-thinking is for the development of skill. Now we need
to think outward about what can I do, my part, my ten cents, my
percentage. And you can teach this to kids. Put your money in
financial institutions. The kid says, “Well, do you get it back?” Sure