Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Business

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  Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Simple

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Business, Integrity, Bad Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

• I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Business, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.98, David M Gross

• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Witty, Perseverance

• It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Business

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

• A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Business, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.300, Penguin

• All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Nature, Business

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.250, Yale University Press

• Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.129, Courier Corporation

• The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Business, Work

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

• Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.25, Penguin

• A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.121, David M Gross

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