Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Economics

• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Business, Integrity, Bad Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

• Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Government, Political

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.679, Modern Library

• Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Running, Father

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.38, Xist Publishing

• If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Employment, Hints, Ants

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.161

• Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Civilization, Vaults, Economics

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

• Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Men, Sometimes

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Familiar letters, ed. by F. J. Sanborn. Enl. ed”

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