Enterprise Quotes - Page 11

• What the Democrats have to understand is that while we do need to reform our regulation and we do need more restrictions, it is true that it is capitalism and free enterprise and companies that create jobs and wealth for every American.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Reform, Needs

  Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. September 21, 2008.

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• Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, is the equal genius of our economic system. Our Founding Fathers endeavored to create a moral and just society like no other in history, and out of that grew a moral and just economic system the likes of which the world had never seen. Our freedom, what it means to be an American, has been defined and sustained by the liberating power of the free enterprise system.

  Mitt Romney

  Father, Mean, Commitment

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• The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Europe, America, England

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish.
  [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]

  Tacitus

  Business, Firsts, Inconsiderate

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• Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Party, Fighting

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• I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Sobriety, Desire

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.10, Fordham Univ Press

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• The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Sides, Priceless

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• The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

  John Dryden

  Christian, Pride, Honor

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• Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them.

  Francis Quarles

  Design, Balance, Genius

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• We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.

  Walt Disney

  Technology, Epcot, Ideas

  "EPCOT". Promotional film, www.imdb.com. February 2, 1967.

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• The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.

  Paul A. Baran

  Country, Lying, Impact

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.194, NYU Press

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• Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Heaven, World, Earth

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• No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

  John Milton

  Perseverance, Done, Sensitive

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.181

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• In the new conditions created by the global economy, the information revolution and the growth of smart technologies, it is more necessary than ever for all companies to be guided by their rich spiritual inheritance, as spiritual enterprises.

  Ted Malloch

  Spiritual, Smart, Technology

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.

  Edward Thomson

  Preparation, Important, Trials

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 585, 1895.

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• [To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Jobs, Ambition, Kentucky

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• Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be defended adequately, we would find that here, as in other areas of our economy and society, private enterprise and modern technology would come not as a curse to mankind but as its salvation.

  Murray Rothbard

  Technology, Rights, Government

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• Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Culture, Gujarat

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• Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

  Bill Shorten

  Wages, Levels, Workplace

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Policies seemed almost deliberately designed to suppress new enterprise and job creation. How many Americans will start a business if the interest rates are 150 percent?

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Creation, Interest, Rate

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• Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

  Frederick Douglass

  Strange, Strive, Natural

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.271, Chicago Review Press

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• The Family of Man is more than 3 billion strong. It lives in more than 100 nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

  John F. Kennedy

  Christian, Strong, Men

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

  Harrison Ford

  Army, Games, Enemy

  "‘Cowboys & Aliens’ star Harrison Ford: Most special-effects films are soulless now". herocomplex.latimes.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Making a book is such a big enterprise.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Bigs

  "A home for Mr Naipaul". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia of anything resembling the private enterprise system as we know it.

  George F. Kennan

  Russia, Understanding, Mind

  George F. Kennan (2012). “American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition”, p.139, University of Chicago Press

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