Enterprise Quotes

• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

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• No enterprise can exist for itself alone.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Profitable Business, Profitable

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• Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Wealth Creation, Satisfaction, Formulas

  Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.

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• There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Two, Essentials, Done

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1903). “The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature”

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• The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Money, Organization

  Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Franklin's Way to Wealth; or “Poor Richard improved,&c.” A new edition ... enlarged by Bob Short and adorned with copper-plates”, p.13

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• Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Future Success, Ifs

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• The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

  William Feather

  Money, Energy, Rewards

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

  Herman Melville

  Order, Literature, Method

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

  Paul Ryan

  Strong, America, Optimism

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Prayer, Men, President

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.432, Penguin

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• It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

  Alexander Fleming

  Team, Science, Discovery

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• I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Truth, Clothes

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

  E. M. Forster

  Fashion, Clothes, Deep Life

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dirty, Wine, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Encouragement, Business

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1330, Jazzybee Verlag

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• [About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Creativity, Science, Men

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• But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Country, Giving, Appeals

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.422, Oxford University Press

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• The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Skills, People, Incentives

  Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.

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• The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

  Tacitus

  Courage, Determination, Work

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book XV, 50,

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

  Ezra Cornell

  Want, I Can

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• Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

  Mike Lowry

  Unemployment, Development, Economic

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• Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

  B. Carroll Reece

  Independence, Energy, Looks

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• The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

  Jack Adams

  Islands, News, Yorktown

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