...Richard says, Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries. And again, At a great Pennyworth Pause a While: He means, that perhaps...have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths. Again, Poor Richard says, Tis foolish to lay out Money in a Purchase of Repentance; and yet this Folly is...

...straightening thee in thy business [that is, tightening your circumstances by tying up your cash], may do thee more harm than good. For in another place he says, "Many have been ruined by buying good penny worths." '2 Henry Ford expressed exactly the same idea in My Life and Work: We have carefully...