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Read & copy the quotation
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
- Source
- Life Without Principle
- Date
- 1863
Meaning of “Do not hire a man who does your…”
Thoreau contrasts work performed only for pay with work connected to genuine interest and purpose, as part of his broader criticism of reducing life to livelihood.
Where does it come from?
Life Without Principle, first published posthumously in The Atlantic Monthly in October 1863; represented Wikisource text. It derives from Thoreau’s lecture “What Shall It Profit?” and is social criticism, not hiring research.
