Benjamin Franklin

BENJAMIN FRANKLINBENJAMIN FRANKLIN

•SuccessfulSuccessful

•IntelligentIntelligent

•ConfidentConfident

•DesireDesire

PrinterPrinter• Printer, not a candle makerPrinter, not a candle maker

• Apprenticed by his brother Apprenticed by his brother

who was a printer.who was a printer.

• Printing = education Printing = education

• Achieved the rank of a master Achieved the rank of a master

printer and later started his printer and later started his

own businessown business

WriterWriter

• Silence DogoodSilence Dogood

•Poor Richard’s AlmanacPoor Richard’s Almanac

• The Pennsylvania Gazette The Pennsylvania Gazette

InventorInventor

• Lightning rodLightning rod

• BifocalsBifocals

• OdometerOdometer

PoliticianPolitician

PostmasterPostmaster

• Measured mailing routes Measured mailing routes to increase the efficiency to increase the efficiency of deliveryof delivery

• Delivered mail by day and Delivered mail by day and night to be increase speednight to be increase speed

Poor RichardPoor Richard• This was Benjamin This was Benjamin Franklins money maker. Franklins money maker. He sold the aphorisms of He sold the aphorisms of people all over the world in people all over the world in different times to the different times to the people because he people because he believed that the world believed that the world would benefit from it, so would benefit from it, so why not make a little why not make a little money. money.

EntrepreneurEntrepreneur

• Remove the competition Remove the competition

•Become the bestBecome the best

•Work your way to the topWork your way to the top