Charles Dickens Quotes

12 quotes from Charles Dickens on investing, entrepreneurship and motivation.

On investing

• Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

• Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

On entrepreneurship

• It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

• Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?

On motivation

• A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

• You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

• Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

• The sight of me is good for sore eyes.

• A new heart for a New Year, always!

• So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

• I must do something or I shall wear my heart away..

• Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.