Enterprise Quotes · Page 13

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

— George Monbiot

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

— Scott Alexander

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

— Marco Rubio

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

— Robert H. Schuller

Enterprises have customers! Ask them for feedback and you can compete with startups!

— Colin Humphreys

“When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.”

— Amit Kalantri

Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise.

— Kaoru Ishikawa

Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.

— Richard Cohen

If one examines the American idea of freedom, the individual, free enterprise, their Constitution, their political and economic structures as well as…

— Ndabaningi Sithole

I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't…

— Charles Ferguson

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

— Anonymous

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we…

— Carl Sagan

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project…

— Susan Sontag

At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long…

— Reed Hastings

Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though…

— Robert Hugh Benson

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

— Thomas A. Edison

We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution,…

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

I've used the term 'Facebook for the enterprise,' and everyone goes, 'We don't want Facebook in the enterprise,' because it conjures up…

— Parker Harris

To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners,…

— Robert Sheaffer

What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ' I'm the most important organ, and the liver…

— Jacque Fresco

I have said, and I believe, that potentially we have in this country a free enterprise system of radio and television which…

— Edward R. Murrow

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce…

— Milton Friedman

Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative…

— Steven Weber

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack…

— Paul Ryan

What keeps my flame burning is, first, I'm ornery and persistent. I don't like giving up on things and I believe in…

— Eddie Pepitone

It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every…

— Richard M. Weaver

It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may…

— Poul Anderson

He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after…

— Chaim Weizmann

In the eighties and nineties, the innovation agenda was exclusively focused on enterprises. There was a time in which economic and social…

— Diogo Vasconcelos

Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

— Erich Fromm

In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

— Peter Schiff

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

— Amy Lowell

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Lee Kun-hee

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

— James Madison

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

— George Ayittey

Free enterprise cannot only make us better off financially, it can make us better people.

— Mitt Romney