Quotations by Benjamin Franklin
Industry: Quotations of Benjamin Franklin
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
No gain without pain.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all -- doing nothing.
All things are easy to industry, all things difficult to sloth.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
You may delay, but time will not.
God helps those who help themselves.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Little strokes fell great oaks.Does thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and will scarce overtake his business at night.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
Industry need not wish.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Well done is better than well said.
Wealth and Money: Quotations of Benjamin Franklin
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Courteous reader, remember that time is money.
He that hath a trade, hath an estate.
Our necessities never equal our wants.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
When the well's dry, we know the worth of the water.
Saving, Spending and Borrowing: Quotations of Benjamin Franklin
Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
Remember that credit is money.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
He that drinks fast pays slow.
Drive your business, let not you're business drive you. If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Wealth and Happiness Quotations of Benjamin Franklin
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has, the more one wants.
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
After crosses and loses men grow humbler and wiser.
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
The poor have little, beggars none; the wealthy too much, enough not one.
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
Content makes poor men rich, discontent makes rich men poor.
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Power and Money Quotations of Benjamin Franklin
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Certainty? In this world nothing can be certain, except death and taxes.
Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power and the love of money. Separately, each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but, when united in view of the same object, they have, in many minds, the most violent effects.
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Wars are not paid for in war time, the bill comes later.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
More Notable Quotations of Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Honesty is the best policy.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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