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Benjamin FranM] THE WAY TO RF^RRR^sg THE WAY TO Benjamin Franklin Applewood Books This edition is copyright © 1986 by Applewood Books, For further information about this edition write, Applewood Books, Box 365, Bedford, MA 01730 The Way to Wealth was first pub¬ lished in 1758 as a preface to Ben¬ jamin Franklins Poor Richards Almanack. In this preface, Franklin summed up all of his previously published thoughts about how to achieve success in business. For this purpose, Franklin created Father Abraham, who liberally quotes from Poor Richard to a crowd waiting for an auction to begin. The essay has become one of the most important and enduring busi¬ ness books ever published. It has been printed and reprinted almost 400 times and has been translated into almost every language. We are delighted to present it here, still as true today as when it was first printed, ABOUT The Way To Wealth Courteous reader, I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an inci¬ dent I am going to relate to you. 1 stopped my horse, lately, where a great number of people were col¬ lected at an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man, with…