Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

I'm careful with money.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

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

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.

I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away.

All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. 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 grout at last.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

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

A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.