Enterprise Quotes - Page 2

• We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

  Hannes Alfven

  Conjecture, Contact, Imaginary

  Hannes Alfvén, Gustaf Arrhenius (1976). “Evolution of the Solar System”

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• Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

  Arthur Erickson

  Entrepreneur, Today, Lasts

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

  Jerry Falwell

  Organization, America, Sick

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

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• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Ordinary

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Hope, Expectations

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Economic, Economy, States

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1987). “Economics in Perspective: A Critical History”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Way To Live, Proud, Public Service

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• A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Being Strong, Nature, Character

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

  Moliere

  People, Laughing, Strange

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• I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Want, Way

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• Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

  Jessica Savitch

  Media, Information, Collectives

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

  Tony Snow

  Military, Giving, Liberty

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• A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

  William Graham Sumner

  Fathers Day, Encouragement, Believe

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

  William Howard Taft

  New Day, Effort, Presidential

  William Howard Taft, William Taft “Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils”, Transaction Publishers

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• Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Opportunity, Competition, Democracy

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• In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Faith, Inspiration, Firsts

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• The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Success, Numbers, Doe

  William Lloyd Garrison, Walter McIntosh Merrill, Louis Ruchames (1971). “The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835”, p.519, Harvard University Press

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• Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

  Ishmael Reed

  Art, Ideas, Free Enterprise

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• Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

  William Graham Sumner

  Believe, Character, Littles

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• There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

  Jim McDermott

  Compassion, Free Enterprise

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• You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.

  Jacques Santer

  Helping, Protection, Policy

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• I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside of me going 'Yay! I'm a sex symbol!'

  Marina Sirtis

  Girl, Sex, Brain

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

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• The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  Garet Garrett

  Fundamentals, Enmity, Deals

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

  James Wolfe

  Success, Bravery, Soldier

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• So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Years, October, Pushing

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