| James Platt - Business ethics - 1876 - 216 pages
..."Beware of little expenses." l; A small leak will sink a great ship." "He who saves not as he gets may keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat." " A fat kitchen makes a lean will." " Would you he rich, think of saving." " Get what you can, what... | |
| Willard Scott Thompson - Political Science - 338 pages
...perhaps a superb flier of kites, but he was a lousy economist: "He that goes aborrowing goes asorrowing." "A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone." Franklin obviously did not perceive the value of capital markets. He did not see... | |
| Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...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 Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning... | |
| Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 576 pages
...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 groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will, as Poor Pvichard says; and, Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
| Jerome M. Segal - Philosophy - 2003 - 302 pages
...perils of spending and in particular of borrowing. The great thing is to save. "We must add Frugality, if we would make our Industry more certainly successful....the Grindstone, and die not worth a Groat at last. ... If you would be wealthy . . . think of Saving as well as Getting." Note that here Franklin is advocating... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Reference - 2004 - 320 pages
...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 Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and, Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning... | |
| Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo - Self-Help - 2004 - 132 pages
...equipment, etc., gathering dust in a back closet somewhere. SECTION 7 THRIFT THROUGH SMART SAVINGS A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets,...the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. Do you want an easy investment program that can guarantee returns of hundreds of dollars a year? It's... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 446 pages
...Business; hut to these we must add Frugality, if we would make our Industry more certainly suecessfuL A Man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Note all his Life to the Grinditone, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kiichen makes a lenn... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 pages
...for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these \ยป<e must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful....groat at last." "A fat kitchen makes a lean will," as Poor Richard says ; and "Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea* forsook spinning... | |
| Paul Zall - Social Science - 2005 - 216 pages
...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 Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning... | |
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