Enterprise Quotes - Page 25

• All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Strong, Cost, Incentives

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• I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Thinking, America

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• It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

  Rick Perry

  Believe, Government, Shackles

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

  Tom Peters

  Technology, Blue, Office

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• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  Samantha Power

  Foreign Policy, Policy

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• Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, Business, Entrepreneur

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

  Sally Ride

  People, Common Sense, Needs

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• I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.

  Sally Ride

  Thinking, People, Orbit

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• 'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Writing

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• President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

  Mitt Romney

  Business, Creativity, Views

  "Mitt Romney's Florida Victory Speech". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

  Mitt Romney

  Strong, Kids, Class

  "Mitt Romney's Wisconsin Victory Speech". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 3, 2012.

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• President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

  Mitt Romney

  President, Trials, Want

  Mitt Romney's primary speech in New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

  Mitt Romney

  Opportunity, Years, People

  Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2012.

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• I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Communication, Thinking

  "NewsBusters Interview: Karl Rove Slams Lefty Blogosphere, Talks Media, Praises iPhone". Interview with Matthew Sheffield, www.newsbusters.org. March 21, 2008.

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• Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

  Marco Rubio

  People, Earth, Poverty

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• Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, People, Bigs

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• Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

  Marco Rubio

  Home, Opportunity, Quality

  Speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Barack, Instance

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• Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, People, Succeed

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• No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

  Marco Rubio

  Eye, Past, People

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• Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Class, President

  Marco Rubio's response speech to Barack Obama's state of the union 2013 address, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

  Paul Samuelson

  Europe, United States, Doe

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• Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Wise, Wisdom, Accomplishment

  "Next Level Leadership" by Gregory C. Scott, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2016.

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• President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

  John Sununu

  Jobs, Playing Games, Space

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• All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

  Tacitus

  Vigor, May, Firsts

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