Thomas Jefferson Quotes

12 quotes from Thomas Jefferson on investing, entrepreneurship and motivation.

On investing

• I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

• Never spend your money before you have it.

On entrepreneurship

• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

On motivation

• Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

• The dead should not rule the living.

• We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

• Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

• Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

• I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.

• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitudefrom achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.

• Everything yields to diligence.

• I haven't failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that don't work.