If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Franklin isn't merely saying that borrowing teaches humility—rather, he's observing that money reveals its true nature only through scarcity and obligation. When you borrow, you stop treating money as an abstraction and feel it as a weight, a promise you must keep, a constraint on your future freedom. A young person who takes out their first student loan often undergoes this precise awakening: suddenly the casual relationship with spending evaporates, and they grasp that money is really time and effort made portable. That shift from ignorance to reckoning is what Franklin meant by knowing its value.
“Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh“It's not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Ayn Rand“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they...”
Will Rogers