Quotes About Enterprise

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

From working in my mum's tiny chemist shop to my experience building large businesses, I have seen how we should support free enterprise and innovation to ensure Britain has a stronger future.

So many of the major decisions that affect the entire future of your enterprise happen during its first year in business. In fact, most don't make it because they don't know how to get the resources they need to survive.

Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

O, sons of classic Italy, is the spirit of enterprise, of self-reliance, of noble endeavor, utterly dead within ye? Curse your indolent worthlessness, why don't you rob your church?

men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This

Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money.

Look at the opportunities here for a man of knowledge, brains, pluck, and enterprise to sail in and grow up with the country. The grandest field that ever was; and all my own; not a competitor; not a man who wasn't a baby to me in acquirements and capacities; whereas, what would I amount to in the twentieth century? I should be foreman of a factory, that is about all; and could drag a seine downstreet any day and catch a hundred better men than myself.

me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake

I am aiming at is a substantial diminution in actual burden on the direct taxpayer. I believe that this burden is at the present time a grave discouragement to enterprise and thrift and a potent factor in the tendency to high profits. I want to make a real impression upon this.

Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

Dagny and Fransisco d'Anconia? she said, smiling ruefully, in answer to the curiosity of her friends. Oh no, it's not a romance. It's an international industrial cartel of some kind.

The fact is, however, that depending on support beyond the family has been the rule rather than the exception in American history, despite recurring myths about individual achievement and family enterprise.

Turning captives into commodities was a thoroughly scientific enterprise. It turned on perfecting the practices required to commodify people and determining where those practices reached their outer limits (that is, the point at which they extinguished the lives they were meant to sustain in commodified form). Traders reduced people to the sum of their biological parts, thereby scaling life down to an arithmetical equation and finding the lowest common denominator.

What's your enterprise of choice? Vane grinned. Hops. Patience blinked. Hops? A vital ingredient used to flavor and clarify beers. I own Pembury Manor, an estate near Tunbridge in Kent. And you grow hops? Vane's smile teased. As well as apples, pears, cherries, and cob nuts. Drawing back in her saddle, Patience stared at him. You're a farmer! One brown brow rose. Among other things. Recognizing the glint in his eyes, she swallowed a humph.

Brevoorts and Goelets were ironmongers, and the Schermerhorns were ship chandlers.

No enterprise can become or rains truly great without a core set of principles to preserve to build upon

Thus my friend," Lewis concluded, "you have a summary view of the plan, the means and the objects of this expedition. If therefore there is anything under those circumstances, in this enterprise, which would induce you to participate with me in it's fatiegues, it's dangers and it's honors, believe me there is no man on earth with whom I should feel equal pleasuure in sharing them as with yourself.

science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information.

Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.