The Way to Wealth
Benjamin Franklin·1736 to 1790·136 pages
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“Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.”
Benjamin Franklin · chosen by someone who read it first
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Busy is not the same as productive. Franklin pulled twenty-five years of his sharpest lines on time, work and debt into one speech, and kept the schedule he held himself to.
Franklin wrote this in the summer of 1757, at fifty-one, as the preface to the last Poor Richard he would publish. He had written the almanac for twenty-five years under an invented name, and rather than write one more preface he went back through the whole run, pulled out everything he had printed about time, work, spending and debt, and put all of it into the mouth of a plain, clean old man with white locks, answering a question about taxes at an auction. The almanac sold near ten thousand copies a year into colonies whose whole reading public was small, and this preface went on to be reprinted more often, and in more languages, than anything else he wrote.
Everything he actually did with a day is here: the almanac sayings, the thirteen virtues, and the schedule he kept.
- OneThe Way to Wealth11
- TwoAdvice to a Young Tradesman29
- ThreeNecessary Hints to Those That Would be Rich37
- FourThe Way to Make Money Plenty in Every Man’s Pocket43
- FiveThe Bold and Arduous Project49
- SixThe Art of Virtue67
- SevenAt Night, After Work77
- EightThe Waste of Life87
- NineSelf-denial Not the Essence of Virtue95
- TenThe Whistle103
- ElevenThe Handsome and Deformed Leg111
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