EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside… — Marina Sirtis Copy Share Image
The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and… — Maxine Cheshire Copy Share Image
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Angels are God's messengers whose chief business is to carry out his orders in the world. He has given them an ambassadorial… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most… — James Holman Copy Share Image
The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When you take a look at the transition from server software to Azure, what's going on in terms of cloud infrastructure, the… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Whether they [left in America are] anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, or libertarians who believe in free enterprise, I regard theirs as the real legacy… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
For American foreign aid to become more effective, it must embrace the power of partnerships, access the transformative nature of free enterprise,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous.… — John Divola Copy Share Image
Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part… — William Greider Copy Share Image
If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the… — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
“. . . there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up… — William S. Knudsen Copy Share Image
Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it’s because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm. — Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell Copy Share Image
I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Capitalism is supposedly free enterprise. Supposedly about the free individual. But capitalism itself is so massive that the guy on the street… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls. — Henry Hazlitt 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
Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth. — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
![“EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.” quote by John Michael Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9b6/john-michael-greer-28078_business_eroei-energy-returned-on-energy-invested_1034993.jpg)
![“[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.” quote by Maxine Cheshire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/17b/maxine-cheshire-63390_ambition_to-the-editor-of-the-harlan-kentucky-dai_840506.jpg)
![“Whether they [left in America are] anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, or libertarians who believe in free enterprise, I regard theirs as the real legacy of the left, and I feel much closer, ideologically, to such individuals than I do to the totalitarian liberals and Marxist-Leninists of…” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e0f/murray-bookchin-2587_america_whether-they-left-in-america-are-anarcho_1465135.jpg)
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