Enterprise Quotes

716 Enterprise quotes by 519 unique authors

Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example,… — Unknown Author
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and… — Patrick Stewart
The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption,… — Kurt Schmoke
A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern… — Karl Hess
I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of… — Ward Churchill
One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an… — Laurence Tribe
The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises… — Ludwig von Mises
There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the… — Ludwig von Mises
Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and… — Llewellyn Rockwell
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. — Henry David Thoreau
Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your… — Henry David Thoreau
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise,… — H.G. Wells
The more successful enterprises are the more they try to replicate, duplicate, codify what makes us great. And suddenly they're inward thinking. They're thinking how… — Lou Gerstner
And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics since this was… — Christopher Columbus
An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources". — Henry Mintzberg
All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise. — Norm MacDonald
The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself. — Stephen Metcalf
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life… — Gene Roddenberry
H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am no longer ashamed,… — Robert Higgs
In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence, — Jamsetji Tata
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as… — Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors-… — Susan Collins
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in… — Henry David Thoreau
Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of,… — J M Coetzee
America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people. — George W. Bush

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