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Jan 20, 2008 · January 20, 2008. The enduring success of “The Way to Wealth” misled generations into thinking of Franklin as twee, quaint, and preachy. Illustration by Gerald Scarfe. Benjamin Franklin’s ...
- Jill Lepore
May 14, 2024 · Benjamin Franklin is enjoying something of a renaissance. Not that he fully faded from view. ... "If you buy anything of them, and give half what they ask, you pay twice as much as the thing is ...
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Franklin was wary of the stock market, having witnessed a huge scam that bankrupted thousands of American and British investors, so he decided to invest in what he knew, the printing business and himself. From printing, he branched out into newspaper publishing and writing, then selling his inventions in his own widely-circulated publications. Earl...
The desire to rely on himself was a major theme in the life of Benjamin Franklin. Quite rare for men of that era, he learned to cook and prepare his own meals in order to save money (most workingmen of the day paid a local boardinghouse for their daily meals). Ben used the cash he saved to build up his book collection and buy printing equipment. No...
From an early age, according to Franklin’s autobiography, he did whatever he could to increase his knowledge base, learn his trade and improve his skills. He spent “an hour or two” each day reading, and had no time for “taverns, games or frolics of any kind.” (from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin) Keep in mind that this was only a short-term...
The Junta (Leather Apron Club) was Franklin’s creation. Its structure was based on many of the social clubs he knew from time spent in London as a youth. But the Junta was a uniquely American organization. Every Friday evening, the group of about a dozen diversely talented tradesmen socialized and exchanged ideas about business, economics and the w...
Feb 9, 2015 · 55 Franklin, “Advice to a Young Tradesman,” 306–308; Benjamin Franklin, “Reasons and Motives for the Albany Plan of Union (July 1754),” in Houston, Franklin, 238–255, here 251; Benjamin Franklin to Sarah Bache, June 3, 1779, in Papers, 29: 612–615; Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones, November 25, 1780, ibid., 34: 56–57. This was also the moral impetus behind his oft-quoted ...
- Sophus A. Reinert
- 2015
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on 17 January 1706. He attended school only briefly, and then helped his father, who was a candle and soap maker. He was apprenticed to his brother, a printer ...
Aug 31, 2015 · Intrigued by the lasting power of Franklin’s treatise on industry and frugality and its influence on capitalism as we know it today, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Sophus Reinert delves into the history of the essay’s dissemination and impact over the years in “The Way to Wealth around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism,” published in ...
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Poor Richard’s Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of “Poor Richard” or “Richard Saunders” for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It sold exceptionally well for a pamphlet published in the Thirteen Colonies.
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