I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that… — Frederick Douglass 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
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits - it… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
To fix the business, to bring it back to health, you must assimilate enough of the disruptive innovation to modernize the operating… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole,… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“ His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be… — George Wilson Copy Share Image
Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We also need to reduce corporate tax rates. This applies to small, medium and large businesses. At 35 percent, we have the… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of those of us involved in today's biomedical research enterprise to translate the remarkable scientific innovations we are… — Elias Zerhouni Copy Share Image
The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I think the development of the venture capital system has been an example of something which is a successful improvement in risk-bearing.… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members,… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
The successful sale of British Telecom... reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise,… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
Americans live under the delusion that enterprise here is both private and free. It may be nominally private, but it's anything but… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
As a young entrepreneur starting an enterprise company, be prepared for the fact that you'll need to get involved in enterprise sales.… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me… — Moses Hadas Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image