Benjamin Franklin Quotes

When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.

In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

The answer to too much debt is not more debt; it is less debt.

Borrowed money, even when owing to a nation by another nation, should be repaid. They hired the money, didn't they? Let them pay it.

It's a bit embarrassing to be a deadbeat .... The United States should not be a deadbeat.

Both parents were hard-working and made me work for my pocket money by doing household chores. That taught me the value of money and gave me a strong work ethic.

A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two.

Great spenders are bad lenders.

Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.

You must be sure - and I mean absolutely positive - that you have the willpower to pay off those credit cards and not use them again.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Remember this Saying, 'That the good Paymaster 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.

I'm having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit.

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, "never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith."

I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.

You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary, and if you make a promise to pay money at a day certain, be sure to comply with it. If you do not, you lay yourself liable to have your feelings injured and your reputation destroyed with the just imputation of violating your word.

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card.

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