Quotes with enterprise

  • Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
  • Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
  • I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
  • The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.
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  • Winston Churchill Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
    Source: Management Science Journal, October 1960
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
    Source: Collected Letters (1926-195007)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Andrew Jackson Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Joy Baluch God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.
    Joy Baluch
    Australian politician (1932 - 2013)
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  • Bill Owens Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Alvin Adams Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
    Alvin Adams
    American businessman (1804 - 1877)
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  • Arthur Henderson I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Pat Buchanan I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. [On Media's Participation In Watergate]
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis 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.
    Source: The Abolition of Man (1943)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • William S. Gilbert In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind - he found it less exciting.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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