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Great estates may venture more; little boats must keep near shore.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

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“He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly, need not be rich.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“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 · Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748 · Primary source

“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 · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“If you want to be wealthy, think of saving as well as of earning.”

Benjamin Franklin · The Way to Wealth, 1758 · Primary source

“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 · The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1771-1790 · Primary source

“The first wealth is health.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Power, 1860 · Primary source

“If a man owns land, the land owns him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Wealth, 1860 · Primary source

“Society in large towns is babyish, and wealth is made a toy.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Wealth, 1860 · Primary source

“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.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Wealth, 1860 · Primary source

“A penny saved is a penny earned.”

Benjamin Franklin · No reliable source

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Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1860
Wealth

An examination of wealth, property and economic activity, considering how resources, labour, skill and judgement contribute to material independence and social power.

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