Benjamin Franklin Money Quotations

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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

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

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.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

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

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

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.

Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard

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

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

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

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.

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

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.

Time is money, be a better you.

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

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. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

Great spenders are bad lenders.

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

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

Time is money.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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.

Remember that credit is money.

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

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

Drink Water, Put the Money in your Pocket, and leave the Dry-bellyach in the Punchbowl

Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of t'other

Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells, equivalent to the Principal and Interest of his Money for the Time he is like to be kept out of it: therefore

He that sells upon trust, loses many friends, and always wants money

He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.

And he that pays ready Money, might let that Money out to Use: so that