Enterprise Quotes - Page 24

• From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Perspective, People

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2003.

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• All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

  Mitch Daniels

  Men, Self, People

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

  Mitch Daniels

  People, Liberty, Pearls

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

  Mitch Daniels

  Successful, Purpose, Clear

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• No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

  Mitch Daniels

  Successful, Self, Governing

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.

  Larry Ellison

  Technology, Clouds, Sap

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2012

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• The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Heart, Winning

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• Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Humility, Stupidity

  "Sentimental Education". Book by Gustave Flaubert, 1869.

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• I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

  Vince Flynn

  People, Trying, Want

  "Vince Flynn Talks 'The Last Man,' His Newest Mitch Rapp Best-Seller (Q&A)". Interview With Andy Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, School, Social

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• It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

  Germaine Greer

  Ideas, Support, Intellectual

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• An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

  Gary Hamel

  New Horizons, Talent, Advantage

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.99, John Wiley & Sons

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• At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.

  Reed Hastings

  Responsibility, Hard Work, Thinking

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• The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Successful, Winning

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.148, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the UK has been borrowing like crazy since 1694, when the Bank of England was invented. This means that we are locked into high taxation to pay for 300 years of wars and other costly and generally disastrous state enterprises.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Crazy, War, Mean

  "Ideas for modern living: usury" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ambition, Home, Desire

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.112

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• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Power, Expectations

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• One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

  Abdul Kalam

  Educational, Creating, Focus

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• There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

  Jack Kemp

  Dream, Men, People

  "Is Jack Kemp Mr. Right?" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 1987.

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• Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Running, Data, Organization

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• Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Dirty, Mean

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• The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.

  Harvey Mackay

  Stories, Milk, Disappear

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Practice, Working Together

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• Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

  Jon Meacham

  Inspiration, Independent, Assessment

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• Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

  Moby

  Bridges, Musician, Looks

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