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The Way To Wealth - Chapter 3

  The Way To Wealth by Benjamin Franklin   Wealth creation is a learned art. Join us in the WEALTH CREATION ENTHUSIASTS PLATFORM to learn the art of wealth creation. Click on this  LINK  to join Chapter 3   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 more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets,   keep his nose all his life to the grindstone and die not worth a froat at last "A fat kitchen maketh a lean will" and "many states are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting,  and Men for punch forsook hewing and splitting If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich because her out- goes are greater than her incomes;   away then with your expensive follies and you will not have then so much reason to complain of hard times, heavy taxes...

The Way To Wealth - Chapter 1

  The Way To Wealth - Benjamin Franklin Wealth creation is a learned art. Join us in the WEALTH CREATION ENTHUSIASTS PLATFORM to learn the art of wealth creation. Click on this  LINK  to join Chapter 1 I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great a pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected   at an auction of Merchant's goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing about the badness of the times and one of the Company called to a plain clean old man with white locks, "pray Father Abraham, What think you of the times? Will not those heavy taxes quite ruin the Country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do?" Father Abraham stood up and replied. "If you would have my advice, I will it you in short : "for a word to the wise i...