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Enterprise Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
- 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…
- 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…
- What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise…
- I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east…
- What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
- Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some…
- Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
- Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors,…
- I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than…
- We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- It is not generally remembered, if known, by thedescendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their first memorable winter in the NewWorld,…
- We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward as into the…
More Enterprise Quotes
- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon
- Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics. — Pope Benedict XVI
- I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. — Tony Blair
- We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies… — Michael Bloomberg
- When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but… — Eli Broad
- 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
- You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what… — Dick Cheney
- From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged… — Dick Cheney
- Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk.… — Winston Churchill
- When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of… — Martin Amis
- Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests.… — Marie Curie