Enterprising Quotes

#1. For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

Bernard Rudofsky

#2. DMS is energetic and enterprising to a degree that from time to time leaves certain persons (e.g. those burdened with a petty fear of death or torture) uneasy (see my prior speculation as to possibility DMS may have been born with a redundant Y chromosome).

Neal Stephenson

#3. Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.

Jeremy Collier

#4. Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#5. Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an invaluable contribution not only to journalism, but to society and to a healthy democracy

Alma Guillermoprieto

#6. Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

Amy Chua

#7. There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees

Ricardo Semler

#8. I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.

H.L. Mencken

#9. Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

Jean Kerr

#10. It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

Erwin McManus

#11. I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion

Kurt Hahn

#12. We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

William Randolph Hearst

#13. Who asked them dern pigs?" he said. "I guess they tracked us," Augustus said. "They're enterprising pigs.

Larry McMurtry

#14. If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Henry Ward Beecher

#15. The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

Vita Sackville-West

#16. A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

James F. Cooper

#17. The job market, however, proved distressingly uncooperative. All of the local barista positions had been filled by more enterprising philosophy majors, and Arthur lacked the skills to do much beyond make a cup of coffee.

J. Zachary Pike

#18. Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity - he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched against the fit.

H.L. Mencken

#19. Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.

Nelson A. Miles

#20. Someone's enterprising idea of therapy is another person's frustrated hell.

Jodi Picoult

#21. At the heart of 'CBS News' is a group of inspiring, enterprising people led by the outstanding team of David Rhodes and Jeff Fager.

Steve Capus

#22. The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

Mark Twain

#23. Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

David McCullough

#24. China has consistently surprised us. When I returned from the United States many years ago, it was unimaginable that we would end up where we are now. What China has achieved defies all logic. I credit this to the hard work and enterprising spirit of the Chinese people.

Zhang Xin

#25. Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

Jonathan Zittrain

#26. If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a spectulator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

Jim Rohn

#28. The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

John C. Calhoun

#29. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

Andrew Mellon

#30. Utopia's quite another land;
In her enterprising movements,
She is England
with improvements

W.S. Gilbert

#31. The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

Lewis Thomas

#32. Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler
a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.

James Kirke Paulding

#33. Free enterprise means that the more enterprising you are, the freer you are.

Mark Victor Hansen

#34. FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

Ambrose Bierce

#35. Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

Leland Stanford

#36. When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

W.S. Gilbert

#37. Casual Italian loafers. One enterprising soul actually wore field-hockey shoes.

Barbara Bretton

#38. I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money.

George Osborne

#39. The newcomer struck him as an enterprising sort of man. The kind that would slit your throat for a box of tissues in your bag while you slept.

Ilona Andrews

#40. We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#41. There is no man who is enterprising and keeps well up with the times but confesses that the women of to-day are in every respect, except political liberty, equal to the men.

S. Alice Callahan

#42. The trait I regard most highly in a man is kindness. Thoughtful, consistent kindness. All other qualities - whether charming, witty, handsome, enterprising, powerful, seductive, or ingenious - wither in comparison to a truly kind man.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#43. Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

Edmund Burke

#44. Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#45. The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#46. The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities that are both sound and more attractive than the average.

Benjamin Graham

#47. Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

George Santayana