Quotes with enterprises

  • Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

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  • Tacitus 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
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
    Walden (1854)
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • A. J. Muste Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
    Some Notes on Workers Education in New International (1935) Vol.2, No.7 p. 225
    A. J. Muste
    Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist
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  • Samuel Johnson 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
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francis Bacon He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ben Bernanke In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Alexander Dubcek In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Gustave Flaubert Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • Og Mandino 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
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Demosthenes Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Barry Commoner The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Hannah Arendt To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Napoleon When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • David Hume Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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