Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Wealth

• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wise, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

• 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

• Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Money, Congratulations

• The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Money, Organization

  Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Franklin's Way to Wealth; or “Poor Richard improved,&c.” A new edition ... enlarged by Bob Short and adorned with copper-plates”, p.13

• The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Wise, Country

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.190, Penguin

• If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Philosophy, Stones

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing

• If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.4

• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Encouraging, Education, Money

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth

• Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Perseverance, Yield, Perserverance

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

• He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Motivation, Greatest Wealth

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

• There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Cheating, Real

  Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the life and writings of B.F. ...”, p.60

• He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Liberty, Doe, Wealth

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Oct. 1734

• Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Liberty, Wealth

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Sick, Wealth

• But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole Country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law: And here the Clergy are in great Danger of being deceiv'd, and the People of being deceiv'd by the Clergy, until the Monster arrives to such Power and Wealth, that he is out of the reach of both, and can oppress the People without their own blind Assistance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Hypocrite, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.5, Hackett Publishing

• Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humility, Sunday, Men

• There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mean, Two, Want

• He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Destiny

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.31, Courier Corporation

• A penny saved is a penny earned.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: new annotated edition”, p.34, MarcoPolo

• Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Greatest Wealth, Riches

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

• There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheating, War, Agriculture

• The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Two, Way

• Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Wine, Games

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.239

• Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, People, Important

• Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Mean, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.93, Penguin

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