Money Benjamin Franklin Quotes & Sayings

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. — Benjamin Franklin

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting. — Benjamin Franklin

One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not. — Benjamin Franklin

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money — Benjamin Franklin

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. — Benjamin Franklin

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head. — Benjamin Franklin

Remember that credit is money. — Benjamin Franklin

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution. — Benjamin Franklin

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. — Benjamin Franklin

The same man who will quote from Benjamin Franklin on thrift for the house organ would be horrified if consumers took these maxims to heart and started putting more money into savings and less into installment purchases. — William H. Whyte

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. — Benjamin Franklin

If you would know the worth of money, go and try to borrow some. — Benjamin Franklin

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter. — Benjamin Franklin

A child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little. — Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. — Benjamin Franklin

When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic. — Benjamin Franklin

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. — Benjamin Franklin

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. — Benjamin Franklin

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money. — Benjamin Franklin

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. — Benjamin Franklin

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body. — Benjamin Franklin

I experienced, too, the truth of the observation, "that after getting the first hundred pound, it is more easy to get the second," money itself being of a prolific nature. — Benjamin Franklin

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch — Benjamin Franklin

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, 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. He that gets all he can honestly, and saves all he gets (necessary expenses excepted), will certainly become rich, if that Being who governs the world, to whom all should look for a blessing on their honest endeavours, doth not, in his wise providence, otherwise determine. — Benjamin Franklin

He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. — Benjamin Franklin

Dally not with other folk's spouses or money. — Benjamin Franklin

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

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off. — Benjamin Franklin

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet! — Benjamin Franklin

What vast additions to the Conveniences and Comforts of Living might Mankind have acquired, if the Money spent in Wars had been employ'd in Works of public utility! — Benjamin Franklin

Time is money, be a better you. — Benjamin Franklin

Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it. — Benjamin Franklin

That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay. — Benjamin Franklin

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. — Benjamin Franklin

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. — Benjamin Franklin

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. — Benjamin Franklin

Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare. — Benjamin Franklin

Great spenders are bad lenders. — Benjamin Franklin

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due. — Benjamin Franklin

Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey. — Benjamin Franklin

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned — Benjamin Franklin

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it. — Benjamin Franklin

I do not pretend to give such a sum; I only lend it to you. When you shall return to your country with a good character, you cannot fail of getting into some business, that will in time enable you to pay all your debts. In that case, when you meet with another honest man in similar distress, you must pay me by lending this sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with such another opportunity. I hope it may thus go through many hands, before it meets with a knave that will stop its progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money. — Benjamin Franklin

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house. — Benjamin Franklin

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn't money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life. — Tom Hodgkinson

Time is money' ... Waste it now. Pay for it later! — Benjamin Franklin

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. — Benjamin Franklin

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever. — Benjamin Franklin

In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money. — Benjamin Franklin

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. — Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. There are three faithful friends in our life,an old wife,an old dog and ready money. A real friend is one who always warms you.
Love is blind. Friendship close it eyes. — Benjamin Franklin

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything. — Benjamin Franklin

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably ... — Benjamin Franklin

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, said: "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 filling a vacuum, it makes one. — David Suzuki

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing, as Poor Richard says; and indeed so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again. — Benjamin Franklin

The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War. — Benjamin Franklin

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money. — Benjamin Franklin

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it ... — Benjamin Franklin