Enterprise Quotes - Page 8

• Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?

  Andy Sawford

  Government, Benefits, Majority

  "The budget: we pick the key points for local authorities" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

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• Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

  Fred Upton

  Choices, Innovation, Needs

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• Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Art, Jobs

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• A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.

  Calvin Seerveld

  Christian, Men, Community

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• The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.

  James Morcan

  Running, Mean, Reality

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• Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it’s because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black market economy where drugs fetch far greater prices than they would if legal.

  James Morcan

  Drug, Black, Criminals

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• However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.

  Jules Verne

  Thinking, Sea, Feet

  Jules Verne (2013). “The Collected Works Of Jules Verne”, p.809, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Economic Models, Rotten

  "Understanding Power". Book by Noam Chomsky, 2002.

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• I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

  Linda Grant

  Dream, Wake Up, Action

  "Linda Grant: a life in writing". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2011.

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• In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

  Preet Bharara

  Black, Information, Financial

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• The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.

  Tim Bray

  Community, Risk, Cost

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• 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

  Guarantees That, Rights, Justice

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• Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Self, Competition

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.62, Humanix Books

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• I believe that there are barriers, educational barriers, cultural barriers, societal barriers, that are keeping people from accessing the promise of a vibrant free enterprise economy.

  Marco Rubio

  Educational, Believe, People

  "Closing the Gap: Sen. Marco Rubio on how more education, fewer broken families can change income inequality". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. February 13, 2014.

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• Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Ignorance, Men, Difficulty

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.34, Race Point Publishing

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• Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wings, Luck, Bidding

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• 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

  Two, World, Prosperity

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.120, Hoover Press

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• Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, May, Measurement

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton, Postscript, 1988.

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• The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise.

  Charles A. Beard

  Morning, New York, Men

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• In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education

  George Gilder

  Company, Protagonists, New Products

  George Gilder (1985). “The Spirit of Enterprise”, Simon & Schuster

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• Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that this value cannot compel a civilization-wide shift toward sustainable behavior and enterprise when stacked up against the urgent economic and social needs of 7 billion people, most of whom are struggling to get out of poverty.

  Edward Norton

  Struggle, Believe, Thinking

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Monsters, Littles, Wreckage

  Robert L. Heilbroner (2011). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.

  Peter Drucker

  Government, Evil, Needs

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.178, Transaction Publishers

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• 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

  Labels, Groups, Settings

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

  Edmund Burke

  Nurse, Evil, Grace

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

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