Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklinwas one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 January 1706
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
Women & Wine, Game & Deceit, Make the Wealth small and the Wants great.
The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.