Enterprise Quotes - Page 15

• Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

  Anita Roddick

  Lonely, Loneliness, Forever

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar, creamer, a spoon, and a tray. Our brief was that it didn't matter if it didn't work and cost wasn't the issue. It was a promotional project, not a commercial enterprise, and was going to be showcased in museums. And the coffee and tea piazza, as mine was called, received a great response. It was wonderful to walk into the Whitney museum and see all these objects on the first floor.

  Michael Graves

  Coffee, Issues, Museums

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• When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. The Roman philosopher Tacitus rightly observed that 'the desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.' If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into aliveness, alertness and creativity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creativity, Mean, Safety

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• War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs.

  Hans Koning

  War, Despair, Left

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• The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Would Be, States, Illegal

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• Any enterprise of your own is a great enterprise.

  Josh Becker

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• Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise.

  Kaoru Ishikawa

  Quality, Facts, Kind

  Kaoru Ishikawa (1990). “Introduction to Quality Control”, Productivity Press

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• Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Struggle, World

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• The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

  Murray Leinster

  Thinking, Firsts, Cooperation

  Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, Baen Books

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• For the protection of the community, of individual life and health, there are some necessities that should be provided for all at the expense of all, such as roads, pure water, and sanitary systems for concentrated population, and reasonably comprehensive mail service. The determination between services that should be operated by the government and those which should be left to private enterprise under proper control should be governed by the degree of necessity to the community as a whole.

  Theodore Newton Vail

  Determination, Government, Water

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• In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Trying, Helping, Should

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• Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are those "metaphotographers" who can make sense of the billions of images being made and can provide context and authenticate them. We need curators to filter this overabundance more than we need new legions of photographers.

  Fred Ritchin

  Views, Surveillance Cameras, Google

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.

  Enoch Powell

  Government, Achievement, Decision

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• The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.

  Tony Blair

  Financial, Free Enterprise, Financial System

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• Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.

  Michael Malone

  Country, Memories, Thinking

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• All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Smart, Lying

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.121, Knopf

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• To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Trying, Impossible

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• The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

  Bertrand Russell

  Secret, Overcoming, Obstacles

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• For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

  Peter Drucker

  Writing, Years, Firsts

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• Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

  David Suzuki

  Economy, Currency, Biosphere

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• Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Art, Two, Feelings

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• Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

  William O. Douglas

  Upside Down, Socialism, Rich

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• The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Exercise, Medicine

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

  Peter Drucker

  Purpose, Definitions, Organs

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.89, Routledge

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• The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

  Peter Drucker

  Social, Function, Humans

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “A Functioning Society: Community, Society, and Polity in the Twentieth Century”, p.228, Transaction Publishers

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