"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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Benjamin Franklin
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Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
"A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned"
"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
"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."
"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
"One today is worth two tomorrows."
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria."
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
"A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned"
"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
"Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal."
"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."