Advice from Benjamin Franklin

Today, I was introduced to the famous quotes of Ben Franklin, and WOW.
I think all of these specifically apply to small business people and salespeople, specifically.

In my experience with agents, I have found that the #1 cause of failure for insurance agents is that they not followed these principles. I never knew, until today, that all of these principles were espoused to prominently by our founding fathers, too!

Here are Benjamin Franklin’s Top 9 Pieces of Advice for Living a Productive Life

1. The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

2. Lost time is never found again.

3. Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

4. Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

5. There are no gains, without pains.

6. Diligence is the mother of good luck.

7. Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

8. Let not the sun look down and say, “inglorious, here he lies”.

9. A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two separate things.