It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain, gathering the grain in their arms— as when someone gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery. You might as well borrow 100,000 lathes as $100,000 if the trouble is inside your business. More lathes will not cure it; neither will more money. Only heavier doses of brains and thought and wise courage can cure. A business that misuses what it has will continue to misuse what it can get.Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther, My Life and Work, Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., (1922), p. 157
Yet some gleanings will remain, as when an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches, four or five on the fruitful boughs,” declares the Lord, the God of Israel.Book of Isaiah 17:6 NIV
“In that day the glory of Jacob will fade; the fat of his body will waste away.Book of Isaiah 17:4 NIV