The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
I believe that today's businesses - regardless of their size - must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe.… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it,… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately… — Alvin Adams Copy Share Image
The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"...… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that any popular fictional character's appeal is idiosyncratic in nature. Characters with large followings - Sherlock Holmes, Harry… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal… — Kurt Schmoke Copy Share Image
Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come… — David Sze Copy Share Image
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican. — Heather Wilson Copy Share Image
Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.… — Michael Malone Copy Share Image
