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Quotes About Enterprise

With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social progress must stand up and be counted and champion our way of life.
~ Liz Truss
Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
~ Bill Owens
I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.
~ Karl Rove
These facts are clear: Trump University was an unlicensed enterprise promising students that they would become wealthy by learning Trump's real estate tips and strategies, taught by his handpicked instructors.
~ Eric Schneiderman
Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
~ Vince Cable
I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.
~ Jim Barksdale
Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
~ C. L. R. James
America's entire homeland security enterprise positively invites questions even as it strives to reassure.
~ Linda Colley
I'm a believer in private enterprise, the dignity of work, limited government, and the possibilities of freedom.
~ Doug Ducey
I must have had an early leaning toward business. Not that I had an understanding of this when I was 10 years old, but when you see what can be done, the possibilities, you want to be involved in something. You want to own it.
~ Philip Anschutz
There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.
~ Max McKeown
Like it or not, at HP we are technologists, not executive compensation consultants.
~ Mark V. Hurd
I will continue to help run my father's company.
~ Grace Poe
Entrepreneurs bring to business... creativity.
~ Wayne Rogers
Our aid budget has a crucial role to play in shaping the world according to our universal values of democracy, enterprise and justice.
~ Priti Patel
We built Zoom for the business customers.
~ Eric Yuan
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.
~ Tim Bray
Candidly, when you go back to '07 or '08, it was hard to sell cloud. We started out by focusing on large enterprises on day one. Everybody thought cloud was for SMBs (small and mid-size businesses), but we made the leap that it was going to be for large enterprises, that they were going to replace their core systems.
~ Aneel Bhusri
The great American government, with its spirit of free enterprise, had imposed communism on the Native Peoples, and like the system the Bolsheviks had imposed on the Soviet Union, it had yielded the same harvest. The once-proud native people learned to accept government handouts, then to rely upon them. The subsequent loss of pride, self-reliance, and initiative led inevitably to the current plague of alcoholism, obesity, and hopelessness infecting modern tribal societies.
~ Richard Phillips
Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator.
~ Richard Pratt
Corporations could raise funds through the sale of stock and bonds, and many states offered charters that gave stockholders limited liability: they would not be held responsible for the corporation's debts beyond their own investment. In exchange for all this, Americans believed that corporations had a greater obligation than other enterprises to serve a public good.
~ Richard White
Until the end of his life, whenever the subject of the vast growth of the LBJ Company and associated business enterprises was raised, Lyndon Johnson would emphasize that he owned none of it ("All that is owned by Mrs. Johnson.… I don't have any interest in government-regulated industries of any kind and never have had").
~ Robert A. Caro
An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".
~ Henry Mintzberg
Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.
~ Peter Drucker