![]() ![]() ![]() He pretty much had a printing empire, and the story of how he built it during his 20s and 30s is really remarkable, and what I found to be the most interesting, and well paced portion of the book. He started and ran a printing operation that he eventually franchised up and down the 13 Colonies. ![]() He was very much human – but he really was beyond remarkable.Īnd he got that was by “little advantages that occur everyday.” He certainly was born into the exact right place and right time, and certainly had plenty of people help him along the way, but he really was the epitome of doing the right things every single day, constantly trying and failing at stuff, and meeting and helping everyone he could to be that successful in nearly everything he did.įranklin started out as an entrepreneur – and referred to himself that way until his death. I had always had this sort of elementary school version of Ben Franklin in my head like most every American, but I was really blown away by just how ingenious, influential, industrious, and insightful Ben Franklin was.Īll the mythmaking in American history does Franklin wrong. It’s 500 pages – and well worth the read. I picked this book up immediately after hearing Elon Musk talk about it (and later finding a whole slew of fans of it). That is one of the many, many memorable quotes from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin. Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. ![]()
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