Chace Mullin
Benjamin Franklin: The Way to Wealth Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706; he was the tenth child out of fifteen. Franklin’s family came from England, whom was protestant, which Franklin was very proud about. Benjamin’s brother introduced him to a printer at the age of 12, which was where he found his love for writing and printing. With the knowledge he got from his brother, he left and proceeded to start his career. Franklin lived by this famous quote after he left his family “There are no gains without pains”. Franklin made countless life decisions that would make or break him. In the end these decisions made Benjamin Franklin the person who we know today. The first thing that really stuck out to me was when Franklin said, “There are no gains without pains” (Franklin 237) because throughout the biography and story he had to make some difficult decisions.
“At seventeen, with little money in his pocket but …show more content…
Franklin says “Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow, which makes Poor Richard says, one today is worth two tomorrows, and farther, have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today”(Franklin 237).
I related to this quote to when I was laying mulch down for a big company and it was easily a day job, we all got lazy and did not finish it that day. When tomorrow came it rained, and rained for the following four days. We received no gains from doing this job because we were to lazy to finish it in a day and it pained us all when we did not get paid because the job never got finished.
“When Franklin returned from England after representing the colonies, he went to Philadelphia in 1775, he was chosen as a representative to the Second Continental Congress, and he served on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence” (Franklin
Benjamin Franklin: The Way to Wealth Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706; he was the tenth child out of fifteen. Franklin’s family came from England, whom was protestant, which Franklin was very proud about. Benjamin’s brother introduced him to a printer at the age of 12, which was where he found his love for writing and printing. With the knowledge he got from his brother, he left and proceeded to start his career. Franklin lived by this famous quote after he left his family “There are no gains without pains”. Franklin made countless life decisions that would make or break him. In the end these decisions made Benjamin Franklin the person who we know today. The first thing that really stuck out to me was when Franklin said, “There are no gains without pains” (Franklin 237) because throughout the biography and story he had to make some difficult decisions.
“At seventeen, with little money in his pocket but …show more content…
Franklin says “Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow, which makes Poor Richard says, one today is worth two tomorrows, and farther, have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today”(Franklin 237).
I related to this quote to when I was laying mulch down for a big company and it was easily a day job, we all got lazy and did not finish it that day. When tomorrow came it rained, and rained for the following four days. We received no gains from doing this job because we were to lazy to finish it in a day and it pained us all when we did not get paid because the job never got finished.
“When Franklin returned from England after representing the colonies, he went to Philadelphia in 1775, he was chosen as a representative to the Second Continental Congress, and he served on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence” (Franklin