Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Nature." Essays: Second Series, James Munroe and Company, 1844, p. 191.
At the time Eigen was serving as the CEO of a corporation that ran various programs under contract to the Federal Government. Two decades later, the founder of Facebook, a man whose goals were never set low, had a more sophisticated way of phrasing this principle. See {631133}.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
