Enterprises Quotes

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan

Small, Growth, Almost

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau

Different, Why, Keep

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Clothes, Beware, Require

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

Rather, Clothes, Beware

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Great, Men, End

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.
Mitt Romney

Society, Free, Next

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
Abdul Kalam

Health, Focus, Learn

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

Great, Wife, Children

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

Positive, Succeed, Demand

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes

Great, Small, Often

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

Great, Power, Few

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave Flaubert

Nothing, Succeed, Idiots

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel

Success, Work, Good

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.
Simon Mainwaring

Society, Together, Working

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

True, Careful, Method

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
Mitch Daniels

Faith, Women, Great

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.
Jon Meacham

Often, Read, Press

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
Sally Ride

Work, Done, Sense

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
Sextus Propertius

Great, Strength, Enough

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

Great, End, May

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
Paul Samuelson

United, Logic, Works

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.
Georgios A. Papandreou

Money, Government, Legal

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
Titus Livius

Great, Nothing, Promise

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

Economic, Among, Productive

Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Free, Rest, Stuff

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.
Doc Hastings

Success, Hard, Spirit

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.
Angela Carter

Person, Ambition, Himself

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.
William Graham Sumner

Great, Again, Financial

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Business, Successful, Win

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.
David Johansen

Bands, Commercial

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