Business Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

— Henry David Thoreau

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

— Henry David Thoreau

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

— Henry David Thoreau

All great enterprises are self-supporting.

— Henry David Thoreau

Commerce is really as interesting as nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

“If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?”

— Henry David Thoreau

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

— Henry David Thoreau

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

— Henry David Thoreau

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as…

— Henry David Thoreau

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

— Henry David Thoreau

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

— Henry David Thoreau

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial…

— Henry David Thoreau

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than…

— Henry David Thoreau

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered…

— Henry David Thoreau

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a…

— Henry David Thoreau

By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind…

— Henry David Thoreau

The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow…

— Henry David Thoreau

As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want.…

— Henry David Thoreau

No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is…

— Henry David Thoreau

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more…

— Henry David Thoreau

I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It…

— Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing…

— Henry David Thoreau

“This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

— Henry David Thoreau

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

— Henry David Thoreau

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

— Henry David Thoreau

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

— Henry David Thoreau

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would…

— Henry David Thoreau

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

— Henry David Thoreau