Enterprise Quotes
716 quotes by 519 authors
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The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom…
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly…
— Richard M. Weaver
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Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...
— Paul Feyerabend
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Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the…
— Robert Hugh Benson
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I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.
— Nigel Farage
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Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads…
— Susan Sontag
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The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
— Herbert Hoover
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Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets…
— Van Jones
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Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities.
— Jack Welch
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There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.
— Jim McDermott
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The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia.…
— Henry A. Wallace
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Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
— C. Wright Mills
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Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help…
— Ben Bernanke
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Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.
— Unknown Author
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Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
— Jane Rule
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The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade…
— Milton Friedman
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Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a…
— John Maynard Keynes
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