Enterprise Quotes - Page 19

• A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a big complicated system through barter, through converting one commodity into another. You need a monetary system to operate. And the instability in that monetary system is devastating to the performance of the economy.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Needs, Complicated

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack.

  Eddie Griffin

  Vacation, Years, Captain Kirk

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• If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded by a lion, and fifty lions commanded by a deer, I should consider myself more certain of success with the first group than with the second.

  Vincent de Paul

  Order, Groups, Lions

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• It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

  John Divola

  Photography, Teaching, Thinking

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

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Cost, Half

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• EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

  John Michael Greer

  Civilization, Support, Energy

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• So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Discovery, Land, Sailor

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.68, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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• Ain't no better place than the US. This is a free enterprise system. You can get whatever you want in the US.

  Howlin' Wolf

  Want, Better Place, Free Enterprise

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• I'm in touch with Stick players all over the world, so I have a unique perspective on what they need from a website. Stick Enterprises is a small family-run business, but they have a depth of experience and committment that's pretty rare these days. I try to make sure that all the bases are covered for them, because I think what they do is really valuable to the music world.

  Greg Howard

  Running, Player, Thinking

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• There is onslaught is the accelerating momentum of technologies and instrumental mentalities that are exterminating spontaneity, undermining love and common decency. It's a thief of time and includes all the palpable and subtle violations of body, mind, and spirit done in the name of science, government, enterprise, progress, and profit.

  Stephanie Mills

  Technology, Government, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• From my perspective, what I'm really focused on, is making sure that, for the broadest number of Americans possible, limited government and free enterprise, the principles that have truly helped build our country into an exceptional one, is one that is being sold to and appeals to the broadest number of Americans.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Government, Numbers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.

  Charles Koch

  Government, People, Effort

  "Full interview: Charles Koch". "Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. October 21, 2015.

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• That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Luck, Development

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.172, David M Gross

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• The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Vision, He Man

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• Enterprises have customers! Ask them for feedback and you can compete with startups!

  Colin Humphreys

  Feedback, Customers, Asks

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• The Cloud-Native Enterprise is a venture capitalist creating continuous innovation powered by Cloud Foundry.

  Colin Humphreys

  Creating, Clouds, Innovation

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• Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

  Paul Theroux

  Order, Disaster, Made

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [T]he scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.

  Al Gore

  Mistake, Important, Global Warming

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• However, however, if the goal is to abandon America's free enterprise economy, if the goal is to convert America into a submissive member of the international community, if the goal is not to fix America, but to change America, then they want leaders that are going to come up here and fight it every step of the way.

  Marco Rubio

  Fighting, America, Goal

  Marco Rubio's keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.

  Poul Anderson

  War, Technology, Names

  Poul Anderson (2011). “Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

  William Graham Sumner

  Captains, Financial, Ability

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.46, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute.

  Ishmael Reed

  Wings, United States, Pages

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think any film that is based on life or real events you want it to be accurate but what really matters is that it's truthful. That is not always the same thing. You really want to convey the spirit of the enterprise rather than ticking every single factual box.

  Lucinda Coxon

  Real, Thinking, Events

  "Catching up with Coxon in London about The Danish Girl". Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. December 30, 2015.

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• Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there's also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of the corporate structure, the capitalist enterprise.

  Fady Joudah

  Reflection, Thinking, Views

  Source: therumpus.net

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• China's economy became more complex. By now there is a large number of small- and medium-sized companies that work quite differently from big, state-owned enterprises. They don't follow any long-term business plan and don't rent office space for years to come. They start out and need an office right away, for a week, a month or half a year, and they want to be among other entrepreneurs like themselves.

  Zhang Xin

  Office Space, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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