Quotes About Enterprise

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Create the job, we wish to have.

Business is in itself a power.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Love never thinks itself a loser so long as it keeps its beloved; yea, it is ambitious of any hazardous enterprise, whereby it may sacrifice itself in the service of its beloved, as we see in David, who put his life in his hands for Michal. How much more so when our love is pitched upon so transcendent an object as Christ and his truth!

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Robert de Balsac, ended a study on warfare with the remark that "most important of all, success in war depends on having enough money to provide whatever the enterprise needs.

But this has less to do with the nature of seed cultivation itself than with imperial and commercial expansion: seeds can spread very quickly if those carrying them have an army and are driven by the need endlessly to expand their enterprises to maintain profits.

Planning and control are being attacked as a denial of freedom. Free enterprise and private ownership are declared to be essentials of freedom. No society built on other foundations is said to deserve to be called free. The freedom that regulation creates is denounced as unfreedom; the justice, liberty and welfare it offers are decried as a camouflage of slavery.35 The

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.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Good businesses can survive a little bad management.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

Less government in business and more business in government.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.

Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.