Enterprising Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like… — Amy Chua
Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined… — Leland Stanford
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better… — Vita Sackville-West
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. — George Santayana
...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out. — David McCullough
Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an… — Alma Guillermoprieto
The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that… — James Madison
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is… — Jim Rohn
There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of… — Ricardo Semler
In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more enterprising people; the… — Maurice Wilkins
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising. — Henry Ward Beecher
I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit,… — Kurt Hahn
Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living… — Andrew Mellon
Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people. — Andrew Mellon
When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the… — W. S. Gilbert
An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life. — Jim Rohn
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection. — Ambrose Bierce
Free enterprise means that the more enterprising you are, the freer you are. — Mark Victor Hansen

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