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Quotes About Enterprise

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
~ Bertrand Russell
The Beatles wanted their new enterprise to have a less corporate name than Beatles and Company. "And everyone, sort of, hesitated about a name," Brown recalled. "Then Paul, in his efficient way goes, 'Let's go through the alphabet.' And he said, 'A is for Apple.' And he didn't have to go any farther."9
~ Allan Kozinn
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
~ Ambrose Bierce
MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.
~ Ambrose Bierce
People are not motivated by the bottom line. It's about the human factor—and purpose is the driver. It's what stirs our souls and inspires us to do great things over a sustained period of time." Capitalism for these organizations capitalizes on human enterprise, not performance metrics. On people, not consumers. On relationships, not transactions. And on becoming the best company for the planet, not just on the planet.
~ Joey Reiman
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
~ Edmund Burke
Strong as that repugnance became, I had an even stronger feeling that we were embarking on an important enterprise far too much upon the spur of the moment. The latter qualm I had the temerity to confess to Raffles; nor have I often loved him more than when he freely admitted it to be the most natural feeling in the world.
~ E.W. Hornung
No hay en toda la Tierra gente más aficionada al trabajo que los catalanes. Si supieran hacer algo, se harían los amos del mundo.
~ Eduardo Mendoza
no one joins in the human enterprise of human dreams and visions and goals so marvelously and so creatively as the person who is unattached
~ Anthony de Mello
in time you will come to believe that there is nobility in being part of an enterprise that will outlast you.
~ Anthony Doerr
You and I will never reach Beta Oph2, dear, and that is a painful truth. But in time you will come to believe that there is nobility in being a part of an enterprise that will outlast you.
~ Anthony Doerr
The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.
~ Wendell Pierce
It is free enterprise and the determination to succeed which generates opportunity and wealth for our society, and in doing so provides the money we need to deliver the high quality public services that we all want.
~ Chris Grayling
Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.
~ George R. Roberts
We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.
~ Jack Dangermond
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
This is this thing I harp on: Sometimes acting can be a self-defeating psychological enterprise if we feel like we're desperate, if we feel like we're beggars at the door, praying that someone will take pity on us and give us a job. It would be so much better to feel like we're tradesmen.
~ Michael Emerson
Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.
~ Marco Rubio
I think religion is as flawed an enterprise as any other human endeavor, but the interests and ambitions of religion are the right interests and ambitions.
~ Scott Derrickson
I do look at 'Modelland' as a franchise.
~ Tyra Banks
There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.
~ Michael Steele
Free enterprise cannot only make us better off financially, it can make us better people.
~ Mitt Romney
I believe in America. I believe in free enterprise.
~ Mitt Romney
Congress must recognize that free enterprise is the cornerstone of this nation's economy.
~ Jack Swigert