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Business Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the…
- They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a…
- If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will…
- 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…
- Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.
- Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
- Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.
- The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
- He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
- Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors…
- ...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
- Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.
- If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other…
- Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily…
- In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
- Diligence is the mother of good luck.
- Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
- No nation was ever ruined by trade.
- The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
- Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects.…
- God helps them that help themselves.
- Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at…
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