“Beware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Remember that Time is Money.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”
— 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; i.e. Waste neither Time nor Money, but make the best Use of both. He that gets all he can honestly, and saves all he gets (necessary Expences excepted) will certainly become Rich.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Society in large towns is babyish, and wealth is made a toy.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Everybody who is adult should save and not be stupidly spending money and defer gratification to get more later.”
— Charlie Munger“If you’d lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.”
— Benjamin Franklin“It is commonly observed, that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery, or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and, with the rapid wealth, come rapid claims: which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Best use of money is to pay debts.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.”
— Benjamin Franklin“For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe, the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Buy what thou hast no need of; and e’er long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.”
— Benjamin Franklin“The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo; as if, after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“If you’d know the value of money, go and borrow some.”
— Benjamin Franklin“I don’t know much about cryptocurrencies except to avoid them.”
— Charlie Munger“Just as animals flourish in niches, people who specialize in the business world—and get very good because they specialize—frequently find good economics that they wouldn’t get any other way.”
— Charlie Munger“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Lend money to an enemy, and thou’lt gain him, to a friend and thou’lt lose him.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn a living at it.”
— Albert Einstein“You don’t need to take the last dollar.”
— Charlie Munger“Money and good manners make the gentleman.”
— Benjamin Franklin“I have never seen the philosopher’s stone that turns lead into gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a man’s gold into lead.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Money is a tool to be put to work.”
— A.P. Møller“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”
— Charlie Munger“To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople; to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.”
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