No, Ben Franklin never made it to Australia in his life time.(in fact during BF’s day it was known as New South Whales and had only been visited by a handful of bold/slightly-insane explorers). However, almost 250 years later he has once again proven his power as America’s most effective diplomat in a glowing article by Australia’s own Daily Reckoning.
Our favorite tidbit:
“Finally, Franklin was ahead of his time in financing good causes with his business profits. He was civil minded early in his career, helping to finance the first fire company, the nation’s oldest property insurance company, and Philadelphia’s own hospital, library and militia. “America’s first entrepreneur may well be our finest one,” concludes John Bogle.
Business executives would do well to live up to the epitaph Benjamin Franklin once described to a friend: ‘The years roll round and the last will come; when I would rather have it said, He lived usefully, than he died rich.’”
Read the entire article on BF from an Aussie perspective .
Dave Speers is an online marketing consultant and blogger that has worked with a wide variety of Philadelphia Start-Ups . Dave spends most his time annoying really smart people at Indy Hall co-working collaborative.
