It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of…

This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has…

— Frederick Lenz

Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Since then, she had wondered if it were strength or a sort of madness that let her pretend she was normal.”

— Robin Hobb

“All winter long, I had glimpsed his deeply set habits, his regimented schedule. When I left, he would eat a dinner of leftovers, then…

— Ling Ma

Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.

— Mandy Ingber

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One…

— Michael Milken

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

— Bill Owens

The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the…

— Benito Mussolini

As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work of mothering…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public…

— William Peter Hamilton

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme…

— Benjamin Zablocki

The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire,…

— Joan Robinson

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

— Bertrand Russell