{"id":4367,"date":"2009-07-27T01:47:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T06:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:06:37","slug":"money-and-career-advice-from-benjamin-franklins-way-to-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/career-wealth\/wealth\/money-and-career-advice-from-benjamin-franklins-way-to-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Money and Career Advice from Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s Way to Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4479 size-full\" title=\"Benjamin Franklin\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2009\/07\/ben_franklin.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Franklin's older years painting engraving portrait.\" width=\"372\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ben_franklin.jpg 372w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ben_franklin-320x377.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been following the blog for awhile, you&#8217;ll know that we&#8217;re big fans of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/behavior\/the-virtuous-life-wrap-up\/\">Benjamin Franklin<\/a>. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/knowledge-of-men\/self-made-men\/\">America&#8217;s first self-made man <\/a>and set the standard for generations to come on how to live a full and prosperous life. Franklin shared many of his &#8220;secrets&#8221; to success as short maxims under the pen name &#8220;Poor Richard&#8221; in his yearly almanac of the same name<em>. <\/em>The adages focused mainly on the virtues of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/behavior\/the-virtuous-life-industry\/\">industry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/behavior\/the-virtuous-life-frugality\/\">frugality<\/a>. In 1758, Franklin reflected on all the maxims he wrote during the first 25 years of publication of <em>Poor Richard&#8217;s Almanac <\/em>and wrote <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/SocSci\/bdorsey1\/41docs\/52-fra.html\">The Way to Wealth<\/a>. <\/em>In this essay, Franklin took on the role of &#8220;Father Abraham&#8221; and dispensed knowledge to his readers by quoting heavily from that wise old sage, &#8220;Poor Richard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Franklin&#8217;s adages in <em>The Way to Wealth<\/em> teach us that success is just the consistent application of hard work and thrift. Despite what late night infomercials claim, the principles to success haven&#8217;t changed much in 200 years. Below, I&#8217;ve collected all the maxims from<em> The Way to Wealth<\/em> in one list. Read through them, pick out a few favorites, and memorize them. They&#8217;re perfect for keeping you focused on becoming the most successful man you can be. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>God helps them that help themselves<\/li>\n<li>Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright<\/li>\n<li>Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that&#8217;s the stuff life is made of<\/li>\n<li>The sleeping fox catches no poultry<\/li>\n<li>There will be sleeping enough in the grave<\/li>\n<li>Wasting time must be the greatest prodigality<\/li>\n<li>Lost time is never found again<\/li>\n<li>Time-enough, always proves little enough<\/li>\n<li>Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy<\/li>\n<li>He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night<\/li>\n<li>Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him<\/li>\n<li>Drive thy business, let not that drive thee<\/li>\n<li>Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.<\/li>\n<li>Industry need not wish<\/li>\n<li>He that lives upon hope will die fasting<\/li>\n<li>There are no gains, without pains<\/li>\n<li>He that hath a trade hath an estate<\/li>\n<li>He that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor<\/li>\n<li>At the working man&#8217;s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter<\/li>\n<li>For industry pays debts, while despair encreaseth them<\/li>\n<li>Diligence is the mother of good luck<\/li>\n<li>Plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep<\/li>\n<li>One today is worth two tomorrows<\/li>\n<li>Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today<\/li>\n<li>Be ashamed to catch yourself idle<\/li>\n<li>Let not the sun look down and say, inglorious here he lies<\/li>\n<li>The cat in gloves catches no mice<\/li>\n<li>Constant dropping wears away stones<\/li>\n<li>Diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable<\/li>\n<li>Little strokes fell great oaks<\/li>\n<li>Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure<\/li>\n<li>Since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour<\/li>\n<li>A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things<\/li>\n<li>Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease<\/li>\n<li>Many without labor would live by their wits only, but they break for want of stock<\/li>\n<li>Industry gives comfort, and plenty, and respect: fly pleasures, and they&#8217;ll follow you<\/li>\n<li>Keep the shop, and thy shop will keep thee<\/li>\n<li>If you would have your business done, go; if not, send<\/li>\n<li>The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands<\/li>\n<li>Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge<\/li>\n<li>Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open<\/li>\n<li>In the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it<\/li>\n<li>Learning is to the studious, and riches to the careful<\/li>\n<li>He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.<\/li>\n<li>If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself<\/li>\n<li>A little neglect may breed great mischief<\/li>\n<li>For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost<\/li>\n<li>A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets,keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last<\/li>\n<li>If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting<\/li>\n<li>What maintains one vice, would bring up two children<\/li>\n<li>Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship<\/li>\n<li>Who dainties love, shall beggars prove<\/li>\n<li>Fools make Feasts, and wise men eat them<\/li>\n<li>Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries<\/li>\n<li>At a great pennyworth pause a while: he means, that perhaps the cheapness is apparent only, and not real<\/li>\n<li>Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Tis foolish to lay our money in a purchase of repentance<\/li>\n<li>Wise men learn by others&#8217; harms, fools scarcely by their own<\/li>\n<li>Silks and satins, scarlet and velvets put out the kitchen fire<\/li>\n<li>A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees<\/li>\n<li>Always taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom<\/li>\n<li>When the well&#8217;s dry, they know the worth of water<\/li>\n<li>If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some<\/li>\n<li>He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing<\/li>\n<li>Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow<\/li>\n<li>Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt<\/li>\n<li>Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infam<\/li>\n<li>The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt<\/li>\n<li>But what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities!<\/li>\n<li>When you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty<\/li>\n<li>Lying rides upon debt&#8217;s back<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright<\/li>\n<li>Creditors have better memories than debtors<\/li>\n<li>The borrower is a slave to the lender, and the debtor to the creditor<\/li>\n<li>Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.<\/li>\n<li>Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue: \u2019tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright<\/li>\n<li>Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times<\/li>\n<li>Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter<\/li>\n<li>The borrower is a slave to the lender, and the debtor to the creditor<\/li>\n<li>For age and want, save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole day<\/li>\n<li>Gain may be temporary and uncertain, but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain<\/li>\n<li>Tis easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel<\/li>\n<li>Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.<\/li>\n<li>Get what you can, and what you get hold; 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