He does not possess wealth that allows it to posses him.
- Topic: Wealth
- Location: Lake Powell
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More Quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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.
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To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
Silver and gold I have none; but such as I have give I thee.
