Enterprise Quotes

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Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise… — Bob Lutz
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment… — Henry Hazlitt
Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ...… — Unknown Author
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime… — Alexander Fleming
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and… — Hannah Arendt
As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and… — Richard Dawkins
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which… — John Maynard Keynes
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is… — David Foster Wallace
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and… — Henry Ward Beecher
It's a slow process, but it is scary, because if someone can control your energy sources, they can control you. We are already being told… — Mike Thompson
We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in… — Robert Menzies
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because… — James A. Garfield
The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes… — John Maynard Keynes
Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation… — Abraham Lincoln
By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts,… — Abraham Lincoln
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or… — Unknown Author
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the restraint,… — Max Weber

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