Definition of Enterprise

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Enterprise

That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.

Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.

To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.

To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

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Enterprise Quotations

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
James Madison

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin Coolidge

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Andrew Jackson

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Erich Fromm

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Enterprise Translations

enterprise in Afrikaans is onderneming
enterprise in Dutch is bedrijf, onderneming
enterprise in French is entreprise
enterprise in German is Unternehmung
enterprise in Italian is intraprendere, operazione
enterprise in Latin is inceptum
enterprise in Norwegian is foretagende, foretaksomhet
enterprise in Portuguese is empresa
enterprise in Spanish is acometida

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