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Business Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.
- But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but…
- We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for…
- The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all…
- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
- Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of…
- You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Every artist was first an amateur.
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Every wall is a door.
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
- The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
- If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a…
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