Time is money.
A professional wit among many other things (including polymath, printer, pamphleteer, and philanderer), Benjamin Franklin contributed many iconic truisms to American life through his annual
Poor Richard’s Almanack, including “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Unhappily married for most of his life, he could have worked the Borscht Belt with his one-liners about wedded bliss. “Marry’d in haste, we oft repent at leisure,” “Keep the eyes wide open before marriage and half-shut afterwards.” But his greatest phrase came in his “Advice to a Young Tradesman” in 1748: “Remember that time is money.”