Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the...

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the...

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast...

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast...

To be great is to be misunderstood.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be...

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be...

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some...

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some...

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who...

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who...

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these...

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these...

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which...

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which...

Revolutions go not backward.

Revolutions go not backward.