Enterprise Quotes - Page 11

• The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Eye, Self Confidence

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.87

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• What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.

  William Hazlitt

  Nice, Choices, Principles

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.468

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• Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Powerful, Action, Excitement

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• Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Party, Fighting

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• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Sobriety, Desire

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.10, Fordham Univ Press

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• For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Threatening

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Sides, Priceless

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• The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

  John Dryden

  Christian, Pride, Honor

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• [On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Track, Grandparent

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• Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Courage, Opportunity, Prudent

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.476

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• Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them.

  Francis Quarles

  Design, Balance, Genius

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• We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.

  Walt Disney

  Technology, Epcot, Ideas

  "EPCOT". Promotional film, www.imdb.com. February 2, 1967.

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• Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Technology, Israel, People

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• The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.

  Paul A. Baran

  Country, Lying, Impact

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.194, NYU Press

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• Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Heaven, World, Earth

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• When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Government, Space, Rockets

  "President Obama’s JFK Moment". The blog of Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2010.

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• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Expectations, Gold, Scarcity

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.235

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• No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

  John Milton

  Perseverance, Done, Sensitive

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.181

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• In the new conditions created by the global economy, the information revolution and the growth of smart technologies, it is more necessary than ever for all companies to be guided by their rich spiritual inheritance, as spiritual enterprises.

  Ted Malloch

  Spiritual, Smart, Technology

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.

  Edward Thomson

  Preparation, Important, Trials

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 585, 1895.

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• [To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Jobs, Ambition, Kentucky

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• All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

  Aldo Leopold

  Team, Men, Land

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic", p. 203-204, 1949.

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• Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be defended adequately, we would find that here, as in other areas of our economy and society, private enterprise and modern technology would come not as a curse to mankind but as its salvation.

  Murray Rothbard

  Technology, Rights, Government

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• Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Culture, Gujarat

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

  Bill Shorten

  Wages, Levels, Workplace

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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