Enterprising Quotes

• Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an invaluable contribution not only to journalism, but to society and to a healthy democracy

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Integrity, Healthy, Democracy

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• An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

  Lee Kun-hee

  Business, Lying, Creativity

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• If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Earning It, Effectiveness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.28

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• Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

  Sean Parker

  Running, Business, Starting Up

  "Sean Parker: 'Now Is The Most Toxic Time Ever In Silicon Valley'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. October 02, 2012.

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• The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Vitality, Audacity, Vigor

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• While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.

  Mark Steyn

  Fall, Two, America

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• I offer a better way for America with ideas that actually work, a reformed tax code that rewards free enterprise instead of just enterprising lobbyists. A reformed health care system that operates by free choice instead of by force and doesn't leave you answering to cold, clueless bureaucrats. A commitment to a renewed commitment to building a 21st Century military and giving our veterans the care that they were promised and the care that they earned.

  Paul Ryan

  Military, Clueless, Commitment

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

  Jonathan Zittrain

  Phones, Law, Car

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• For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

  Bernard Rudofsky

  Animal, Men, Long

  1964 Architecture without Architects.

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• To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?

  Barbara Tuchman

  History, Smoking, Events

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.25, Random House

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• Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.

  Jeremy Collier

  Depressing, Passion, Men

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• Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

  Jean Kerr

  Christmas, Morning, Doors

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Mistake, Men

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Causes, Matrimony

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.49

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• What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion. [...] The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery.

  Kurt Hahn

  Dream, Children, Memories

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• Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Talent, Revolt

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.158

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• I was just in a few episodes the first season [ of Empire]. They didn't kill me, but I haven't been back in season two or three. I don't know if they have plans for me or not. But I enjoyed working on it. And I think it's a really talented group of actors and, boy, very enterprising to try and shoot those every week, you know, with musical numbers and all that stuff.

  Judd Nelson

  Boys, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Utopia's quite another land;
  In her enterprising movements,
  She is England--with improvements

  W. S. Gilbert

  Land, Movement, Improvement

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.1121, Oxford University Press

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• We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Guy, Looks

  "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor". Book by Tren Griffin, September 15, 2015.

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• I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Tyrants, Ideas

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• We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Revolution, Originals

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• The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

  Mark Twain

  Baby, Ideas, House

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2171, GENERAL PRESS

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• A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Government, People

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.

  George Washington

  Real, Party, Character

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.7

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• Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Football, Teacher

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