Top 100 Quotes About Enterprise
#1. So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. LTO ultrium is adaptable and scalable backup tape format and its technology is continuously enhanced by its manufacturers to address the growing needs and requirements of the server environments of midrange to the enterprise class.
Sean Paul
#3. The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.
Virginia Postrel
#4. 'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.
Rick Riordan
#5. Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.
John W. Davis
#6. The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and annihilated every waking moment of the last twenty years. Anything, rather than feel.
Rachel Joyce
#7. The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise.
Joan Robinson
#8. Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.
Jill Abramson
#9. Enterprise is better than ease.
Jim Rohn
#10. For a long time, to obtain enterprise customers, I concealed the fact that I owned the company. I never lied about it, but I never volunteered that information. My business card didn't even have a title
Rebecca Enonchong
#11. Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise.
Kaoru Ishikawa
#13. The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans.
Henry Hazlitt
#14. I am not going out under human guidance, subject to the defective laws and erring control of my feeble fellow-worms; my king, my lawgiver, my captain, is the All-perfect; it seems strange to me that all round me do not burn to enlist under the same banner--to join in the same enterprise.
Charlotte Bronte
#15. The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#16. Unwilling wholly to abandon the project for which his wife had died, unable to maintain any longer the absolute belief which the enterprise required, Muhammad Din entered the station wagon of scepticism.
Salman Rushdie
#17. I should care about the education a child in Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh, or Erie, or Scranton received because if they didn't get a good education my life is diminished and all of our lives are enhanced if they get that good education. It is a shared enterprise and we need to recognize that.
Tom Wolf
#18. I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked
W.B.Yeats
#19. Touch and away, Jack?' asked Stephen. 'Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?'
To do with our enterprise? To do with this voyage?'
Perhaps not quite directly.
Patrick O'Brian
#20. If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.
George Nethercutt
#21. Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.
Maynard James Keenan
#22. I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.
Stephen Jay Gould
#23. Metaphorically, IT is the nervous system of the enterprise body.
Pearl Zhu
#24. I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.
Jim Barksdale
#25. We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
C.S. Lewis
#26. The identification of any object in the first-person case is ruled out by the enterprise of scientific explanation. So science cannot tell me who I am, let alone where, when, or how.
Roger Scruton
#27. The diversity of institutions has made possible the combination of government ownership and private enterprise which has been a further characteristic of Canadian development. Canada has remained fundamentally a product of Europe.
Harold Innis
#28. I believe the free enterprise system is not an economic alternative. It's a moral imperative.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#29. When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been happening with drugs?
Milton Friedman
#30. The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.
Steven Pressfield
#31. Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow ...
Ludwig Von Mises
#32. The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble
Dmitry Medvedev
#33. The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.
Clayton M Christensen
#34. People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#35. Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and provides a clear and predictable economic policy framework for business to succeed.
Jeroen Van Der Veer
#36. On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.
Amy Lowell
#37. We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges
Winston Churchill
#38. Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.
Peter L. Bergen
#39. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Edmund Burke
#40. In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.
John Lennox
#41. It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.
James Cameron
#42. There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.
Jim McDermott
#43. Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.
Ronald Reagan
#44. All of us need just one good accomplishment in order to get by. Obviously he can't spend the rest of his life climbing trees, but it's the agility and enterprise involved in the act that will make him a survivor. Enough
Ruskin Bond
#45. Ignition! blast off!!! the vessel needs a new name! something more appropriate to a starship.
apollo? gemini? enterprise. already taken.
millennium falcon. trademarked. all rights reserved.
no! wait, i have it! dragin star! thats it! dragon star!
Margaret Weis
#46. My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.
Peter Lynch
#47. There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
George Ayittey
#48. Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.
Janice Rogers Brown
#49. It is in their interests to have a stable, skilled labour force, a permanently well-adjusted complex, because the human complex (the collective worker) of an enterprise is also a machine which cannot, without considerable loss, be taken to pieces too often and renewed with single new parts.
Antonio Gramsci
#50. It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.
Harold Laski
#51. Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.
Grenville Kleiser
#52. Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#53. Very rapidly now Freddie realised that what he had been wishing for was a partner to share the perils of this enterprise which he had so rashly undertaken. In fact, not so much to share them as to take them off his shoulders altogether.
P.G. Wodehouse
#54. American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.
Thomas Sowell
#55. Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer. It is disappointing that the updated report relies on assumptions that are not in line with the reality of the marketplace.
Kyle E. McSlarrow
#56. Enterprise Performance Management is an overarching umbrella for other management disciplines.
Pearl Zhu
#57. In this sense socialism means the abolition of private enterprise, of private ownership of the means of production, and the creation of a system of "planned economy" in which the entrepreneur working for profit is replaced by a central planning body.
Friedrich Hayek
#58. Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#59. Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.
Camille Paglia
#60. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
C.S. Lewis
#61. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
Henry David Thoreau
#62. I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
Tony Blair
#63. Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.
Louis D. Brandeis
#64. In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#65. To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.
Saint John Chrysostom
#66. No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
Mitch Daniels
#67. Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.
Peter Drucker
#68. Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
Terence McKenna
#69. The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.
Margaret Thatcher
#70. I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.
Susan Orlean
#71. We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.
Bob Schieffer
#72. Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of private enterprise and to look after them in old age.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#73. To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.
Susan Sontag
#74. As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect.
Richard Dawkins
#75. Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.
Charles H. Townes
#76. A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.
William Peter Hamilton
#77. There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
Lord Acton
#78. An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".
Henry Mintzberg
#79. I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.
Susan Glaspell
#80. Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have to know what you're doing, do it, and move on.
William Monahan
#81. By relying primarily on voluntary co-operation and private enterprise, in both economic and other activities, we can insure that the private sector is a check on the powers of the governmental sector and an effective protection of freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought.
Milton Friedman
#82. I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.
Russell Crowe
#83. Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.
Mike Lowry
#84. It is one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people to fill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as white applicants.
Robert Kennedy
#85. If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
Aaron Levie
#86. It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.
Jesse Ball
#87. Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.
Rush Limbaugh
#88. If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?
James C. Collins
#89. To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.
Alexander Hamilton
#90. After seventy-eight days and 2,200 miles, the enterprise was in serious trouble - not from crocodiles, hippos, bandits, diseases, or even bureaucracy - but from simple human conflict.
Richard Bangs
#91. It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.
Kurt Bills
#92. Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to cut competition, with major corporations merging and consolidating at every opportunity.
Lou Dobbs
#93. While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
Barry Goldwater
#94. FBI slaughter of the innocents at Waco was a model Jacobin enterprise.
Gore Vidal
#95. Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.
John Mackey
#96. Our journey was to be a great enterprise of balance. My father, of course, was bringing the Word of God - which fortunately weighs nothing at all.
Barbara Kingsolver
#97. When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.
Buzz Aldrin
#98. There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
Jack Kemp
#99. Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.
Gerald R. Ford
#100. Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
Jorge Luis Borges
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