Benjamin Franklin Way To Wealth Quotes

#1. Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. 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.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Pythagoras

#5. I got rid of all those reporters.

Myrna Loy

#6. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war ... this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. I've never been a fan of euphemism.

Jo Brand

#10. He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. Loneliness is a darkness of the soul

N.K. Jemisin

#12. Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

Benjamin Franklin

#13. 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

#14. No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

Benjamin Franklin

#15. Ben Franklin said:
"Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy wealthy and wise"
Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:
"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#16. 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.

Benjamin Franklin

#17. I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next. Hello?

Rainbow Rowell

#18. Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

Benjamin Franklin

#19. It's disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it.

Allie Brosh

#20. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Benjamin Franklin

#21. Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.

Benjamin Franklin

#22. My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'

Prince William

#23. While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

Benjamin Franklin

#24. Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

Benjamin Franklin

#25. Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Benjamin Franklin

#26. I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

Bill Joy

#27. It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Benjamin Franklin

#28. The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Benjamin Franklin

#29. A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

Benjamin Franklin

#30. Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth ... thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly ...

Benjamin Franklin