Enterprise Quotes
716 Enterprise quotes by 519 unique authors
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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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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of…
— Gerda Lerner
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Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
— Peter Drucker
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If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises…
— Lou Gerstner
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The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.
— David Livingstone
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The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.
— Jeff Bezos
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I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of…
— Steven Pressfield
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A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.
— Warren Buffett
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All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea – encourages inflexibility, discourages…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has…
— Richard P. Feynman
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All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.
— Jesse Helms
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Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on…
— Ray Kroc
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The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For…
— Brian Swimme
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It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest…
— Benjamin Tucker
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In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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