Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

32 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson on investing, entrepreneurship and motivation.

On investing

• The first wealth is health.

• Money often costs too much.

On entrepreneurship

• Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

On motivation

• We change whether we like it or not.

• Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

• Do the thing and you will have the power.

• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

• Hitch your wagon to a star.

• Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

• The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

• Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

• You become what you think about all day long.

• The world belongs to the energetic.

• What I must do is all that concerns me,.

• We are wiser than we know.

• The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

• Always do what you are afraid to do.

• Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

• The never-ending task of self improvement.

• A great man is always willing to be little.

• Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

• Fear always springsfrom ignorance.

• Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

• Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.

• Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.

• When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

• Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

• As soon as there is life there is danger.

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

• Self-trust is the first secret of success.