What does this quote mean?

“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

The proverb links routine and self-discipline with health, productivity, and practical judgment.

Source note: Poor Richard’s Almanack; proverb on routine, work and practical discipline.

“Ambition, energy, industry, perseverance, are indispensable requisites for success in business.”

The sentence presents business success as a compound result of sustained energy and persistence rather than a single clever idea or fortunate moment.

Source note: The Art of Money Getting, in Barnum’s discussion of thorough work and business effort.

“The master-word is Work”

Osler makes sustained work the organizing principle of his address to medical students, emphasizing disciplined practice over brilliance without application.

Source note: The Master-Word in Medicine, address at the opening of the University of Toronto medical faculty buildings, October 1, 1903. This collection treats the line as historical professional rhetoric and not as an endorsement of excessive working hours.

“Well done is better than well said.”

Franklin gives execution priority over impressive promises or intentions.

Source note: Poor Richard’s Almanack.

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

Persistent effort improves the odds of useful results because steady work creates more opportunities for progress than waiting for favorable circumstances.

Source note: Poor Richard’s Almanack; the maxim appears in Franklin’s collected Poor Richard material.

“he must work and be industrious to live.”

Franklin tells prospective emigrants without inherited wealth that livelihood would depend on work and industry, directly countering expectations of effortless advancement after arrival.

Source note: Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, before March 1784; Founders Online. The lowercase opening is retained because this is a clause from Franklin’s longer sentence about strangers, law, liberty and industry.