Great Enterprises Quotes

#1. Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

Sextus Propertius

#2. All great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics.

Tom McCarthy

#3. There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

Livy

#4. God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

Mark Twain

#6. Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

Francis Bacon

#7. Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

Demosthenes

#8. All great enterprises are self-supporting.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Og Mandino

#10. When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

#12. Great wealth is often created by the launching of great surprises, not by the launching of great enterprises.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#13. This "manna from heaven" was being squandered because of the laziness and stupidity of the savages who refused to work as harvesters of latex and obliged the planters to go to the tribes and take them by force. Which meant a great loss of time and money for the enterprises. "Well,

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#14. Those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

Booker T. Washington

#15. From: Christian Grey
Subject: &*%$&*&*
Date: August 23 2011 11:23
To: Anastasia Grey
Believe me when I say there are a great many things he'd like to do to your ass right now. Firing you is not one of them.
Christian Grey
CEO & Ass man, Grey Enterprises Holdings, Inc.

E.L. James

#16. If people only realized what a war goes on in a child's mind and heart in a situation of this kind, I think they would try to explain more than they do,

Eleanor Roosevelt

#17. All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Tacitus

#18. Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Alan Paton

#19. Death makes its own choices.
Has reasoning an order has a taste ...

Angelo Tsanatelis

#20. Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

William Graham Sumner

#21. He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Simone Weil

#22. God is all-powerful. God is perfectly good. Evil exists. If God exists, there would be no evil. Therefore God does not exist.

Epicurus

#23. I think it's just a nerve-wracking thing to sing in a movie in general.

Brittany Snow

#24. Lots of travel, away from home.

Bob Hope

#25. The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

Arthur Helps

#26. The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters.

Paul Feyerabend

#27. It's very possible that fear of being where you wish to be is exactly why you're not there yet.

Charles F. Glassman

#28. The color of communism was not red but gray.

Richard M. Nixon

#29. A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.

Thomas Huxley

#30. Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Michel Onfray

#31. You cannot be serious. You CANNOT BE SERIOUS!

John McEnroe

#32. Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Samuel Johnson

#33. In my head maybe it was a test of love, because there are things about illness which I find revolting.

Jackie Kay

#34. The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

William Shakespeare