Business Quote by Michael Joseph Oakeshott Download Open image “To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.” — Michael Joseph Oakeshott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Business Enterprise Impossible Trying
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk. — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
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Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image