Quote by Walter Isaacson

“Franklin’s own idea was more expansive: he believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed based on their diligence,”

— Walter Isaacson

“Franklin would find himself more attracted to people who were practical and reliable rather than dreamy and romantic.”

— Walter Isaacson

“To assess Franklin properly, we must view him, instead, in all his complexity. He was not a frivolous man, nor a shallow one, nor…

— Walter Isaacson

“Despite the pecuniary spirit of Poor Richard’s sayings and the penny-saving reputation they later earned Franklin, he did not have the soul of an…

— Walter Isaacson

“Indeed, in addition to its lessons of thrift, industry, and prudence, Franklin's autobiography tells us every man should be part of a social group,…

— Keith Ferrazzi

Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy and wealth…

— Mark Twain

“People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to invest time into improving whatever it is they…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Why, all his virtues are derived from his station only; because he is rich, he is called generous; because he is powerful, brave”

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

William McKinley has left us a priceless gift in the example of a useful and pure life, in his fidelity to public trusts and…

— Grover Cleveland

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking,…

— Matthew Henry

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows…

— Owen Feltham

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest…

— Eleanor Roosevelt