Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Money
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.
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Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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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.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.
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Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
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Remember that credit is money.
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
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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.
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It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
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Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
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Great spenders are bad lenders.
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A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
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Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
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He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States