Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Leadership
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
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It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
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He that cannot obey, cannot command.
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Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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Time is money.
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Do not do that which you would not have known.
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The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
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The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.
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Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States
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