“If you want to be wealthy, think of saving as well as of earning.”
Benjamin Franklin (verified)
The Way to Wealth (Primary source)
The Way to Wealth stands as perhaps the most enduring distillation of the American entrepreneurial spirit, crystallizing Benjamin Franklin’s philosophy into maxims that have echoed through American consciousness for over two centuries. Published in 1758 as the preface to Poor Richard’s Almanack, this brief essay emerged from Franklin’s genius for transforming Enlightenment rationality into practical wisdom for a commercial age.
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