Enterprise Quotes · Page 12

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

— James Cook

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

— Abraham Lincoln

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

— Angela Ahrendts

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

— Jack Kemp

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

— Joy Baluch

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic…

— Harold Laski

In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately…

— Alvin Adams

Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He's supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private…

— David Frum

If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it…

— Robert A. Dahl

I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to…

— Sally Ride

To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable…

— Alexander Hamilton

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors…

— Anonymous

The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on…

— Richard Ebeling

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and…

— Tacitus

There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it.…

— Peter Lynch

If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a…

— Francis Fukuyama

In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer.…

— David Sedaris

But it is a worry that there have been so many delays in the reform of China's state-owned enterprises. We all know…

— Zhang Xin

To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading…

— Paul Goodman

We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border…

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his…

— Douglas MacArthur

The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice…

— Ciaran Hinds

In the Java world, security is not viewed as an add-on a feature. It is a pervasive way of thinking. Those who…

— James Gosling

While sabotaging our reliable energy sources, Obama is also throwing as much federal money as he can at failed green energy projects,…

— David Limbaugh

As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums…

— John Maynard Keynes

The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and…

— William Greider

Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and…

— Sam Harris

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid…

— David O. McKay

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt,…

— James A. Garfield

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

— Peter Schiff

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

— Amy Lowell

I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

— Erich Fromm

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

— Lee Kun-hee

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

— George Ayittey

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

— James Madison

Free enterprise cannot only make us better off financially, it can make us better people.

— Mitt Romney

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali