Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up… — Raymond C. Hoiles Copy Share Image
Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old -… — George R. Roberts Copy Share Image
I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise,… — Alexander Dubcek Copy Share Image
I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As the owner of the Arison Group, a philanthropic and business enterprise that spans across 40 countries in 5 continents, my ongoing… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
Where is the "unexplored land" but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective… — Zick Rubin Copy Share Image
We cannot deny that our decision today will have an impact on the ability of law enforcement to combat crime. Cell phones… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
The larger the government, the more our livings standards are reduced. We are fortunate as a civilization that the progress of free… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
System uptime, data protection, and identity theft are weighty issues. It takes real ingenuity to out-think the fraudsters who are trying to… — Chris Shipley Copy Share Image
Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I always just wanted to have enough to carry on. I never had ambitions to take over the world or be a… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it. — George Lois Copy Share Image
“Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels—training and development that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rather than being an impediment, NASA can and should be the driver of commerce, the provider of the technology necessary to make… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
At the enterprise level, businesses have the talent and budget to create and enforce policies that prevent staffers from installing things themselves. — Jeff Duntemann Copy Share Image
It's private enterprise that can create jobs and fill them. It's business that can train people and make them productive tax-payers. And… — Bobby Kotick Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it -… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image