Quotes by Benjamin Franklin on personal finance and investments

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Fish and Visitors stink in 3 days.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Eat to live, don't live to eat.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

You may delay, but time will not.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

Failing to plan means planning to fail.

If better is possible, good is not enough.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.