Enterprise Quotes - Page 16

• A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

  Peter Drucker

  Generations, Lifetime, Economy

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.34, Routledge

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• The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

  Peter Drucker

  Definitions, Resources, Capable

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.11, Routledge

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• 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

  Teaching, Training, Development

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2006). “Classic Drucker: Essential Wisdom of Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review”, p.195, Harvard Business Press

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• For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today!

  Angela Ahrendts

  Today, Social, Ceo

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• In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

  Winston Churchill

  Mistake, Trying, Settling

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

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• Salespeople are the most vital people in any business. Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.

  Brian Tracy

  Country, People, Community

  Brian Tracy (2006). “The Psychology of Selling: How to Sell More, Easier, and Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.1, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their success. But believe me, it will not fail to cost them some effort.

  Charles Hermite

  Believe, Effort, Risk

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• Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Done, Poverty

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Substitutes

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

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• The larger the government, the more our livings standards are reduced. We are fortunate as a civilization that the progress of free enterprise generally outpaces the regress of government growth, for, if that were not the case, we would be poorer each year - not just in relative terms, but absolutely poorer too. The market is smart and the government is dumb, and to these attributes do we owe the whole of our economic well-being.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Smart, Government, Years

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• Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

  Mark Twain

  Promise

  Mark Twain (1870). “The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author”, p.650

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• Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job.

  James Woods

  Jobs, Sex, Lines

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• A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States of Europe overrides these goals, the new Europe will be one of subsidy and protection

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, Creating, Goal

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• ...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

  Booker T. Washington

  People, Criticism, Would Be

  Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth (2017). “100$ REWARD ON MY HEAD – Powerful & Unflinching Memoirs Of Former Slaves: 28 Narratives in One Volume: With Hundreds of Documented Testimonies & True Life Stories: Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, 12 Years a Slave, Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth...”, p.1065, e-artnow

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• Angels are God's messengers whose chief business is to carry out his orders in the world. He has given them an ambassadorial charge. He has designated and empowered them as holy deputies to perform works of righteousness. In this way they assist him as their creator while he sovereignly controls the universe. So he has given them the capacity to bring holy enterprises to a successful conclusion.

  Billy Graham

  Angel, Successful, Order

  Billy Graham (2011). “Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Janice Rogers Brown

  Government, World, Size

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

  Peter Schiff

  Real, Government, Stories

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• Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

  Wayne Muller

  Successful, Effort, Suffering

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• The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

  James Cook

  Government, Ideas, Waste

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• Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.

  Raymond C. Hoiles

  Running, Long, Tools

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• The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would like. It has become, in essence, a quasi-state-run enterprise, because it cannot drill, transport, refine, and store fuel without receiving government permission, complying with government regulations, and paying taxes at every level or production.

  Mark Levin

  Running, Government, Essence

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Income, Wealth, Capitalist

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.342, VM eBooks

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• Free enterprise is the sure and so far the only known way of constantly improving the well-being of mankind.

  Raymond C. Hoiles

  Way, Mankind, Well Being

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• You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Successful, Prejudice, Knows

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

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Government, Causes, Monopoly

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (2009). “The Reagan I Knew”, p.241, Basic Books

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