If you'd lose a troublesome Visitor, lend him Money. (Benjamin Franklin)
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them. (Benjamin Franklin)
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. (Benjamin Franklin)
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless. (Benjamin Franklin)
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)
Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of t'other (Benjamin Franklin)
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great (Benjamin Franklin)
It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox (Benjamin Franklin)
Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller. (Benjamin Franklin)
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, 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. (Benjamin Franklin)
He that knows nothing of it, may by chance be a Prophet while the wisest that is may happen to miss. The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach for his meat. (Benjamin Franklin)
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. (Benjamin Franklin)
And he that pays ready Money, might let that Money out to Use so that (Benjamin Franklin)
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