"Pay what you owe and you'll know..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.
More by Benjamin Franklin
“Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.”
“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.”
“And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.”
More on Debt
“I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.”
“No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.”
“Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.”
More on Responsibility
“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”
“I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.”
“First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.”