Enterprises Quotes

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. — Francis Bacon
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign… — Alexander Hamilton
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in… — Robert Kennedy
Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere… — Og Mandino
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall. — Tacitus
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions — David Hume
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was… — Milton Friedman
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil… — Thomas Jefferson
His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,… — George Wilson
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 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
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
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
If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified… — Robert A. Dahl
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which… — James Madison
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of… — James Madison

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