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This speech should have made a whole crowd rich. Watch what they did with it.
1758. People wait outside an auction, money in their pockets.
An old man, Father Abraham, stands up and starts preaching.
Work hard, he says. But earning is only half the game.
Watch the small spending. Tea. Treats. Fancy clothes.
"A small leak will sink a great ship."
Don't buy what you don't need, or one day you'll sell what you do need.
The crowd loves it. They nod. They agree with every word.
Then the auction doors open.
And they buy everything.
Franklin wrote it himself: they loved the advice, and did the exact opposite.
Knowing is easy. Doing is the hard half.
This week: write down every small thing you buy. Find your biggest leak. Plug it.
Source: The Way to Wealth, by Benjamin Franklin (1758).