Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Leadership

• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Leadership, Real Friends

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing
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  It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Patriotic, Independent

• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Money, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.251, Printed for H. Colborn

• A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Leadership, Teamwork

  Benjamin Franklin (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition”, p.11, University of Pennsylvania Press

• It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Character, Deeds Done

• Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Leadership, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

• Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Bullying, Funny Inspirational

• When you're finished changing, you're finished.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Leadership, Inspiration

• He that cannot obey, cannot command.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Relationship, Leadership, Discipline

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

• Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Leadership, World

• Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, People, Favors

• The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Noise, Wheels

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.38, Nayika Publishing

• Do not do that which you would not have known.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Poor Richard, Known

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.46, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, 4th Of July, School

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.120

• He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Kindness, Done

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.181, Benjamin Franklin

• If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Sports, Done

• Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Mean, Soldier

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”

• Time is money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Time, Time Is Money

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.244

• It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Mistake, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.206

• The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Deeds, Feds

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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