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• The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Mistake, Hero, Prudent

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• Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Time, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

  Victor Kiam

  Responsibility, Ideas, Support

  Victor Kiam (1987). “Going for It: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur”, Signet

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• Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Expression, Entrepreneur, Profit

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.153, Transaction Publishers

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• Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

  Patrick Stewart

  Stars, Believe, Men

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

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• Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

  A. R. Ammons

  Taken, Today, Wonderful

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• Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Ideas, Support, Entrepreneur

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• One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

  Patrick Stewart

  Kings, Irritation, Years

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• No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  War, People, Saving

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• The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

  Charles Sturt

  Successful, Causes, Flourishing

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.

  Chaim Potok

  Relationship, Thinking, Guarantees That

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• If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

  Denis Johnson

  Lonely, Loneliness, Writing

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• Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Business, Blessing, Civilization

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.4, Routledge

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• I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.

  James L. Barksdale

  Past, Thinking, People

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• I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.

  Richard Lugar

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Law

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• To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.

  Jim Rohn

  Independent, Independence, Income

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 23, 2016

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Happiness, Happy

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.395, Psychology Press

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• Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

  Paul Ryan

  Business, Skills, Ideas

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  Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Horse, Business

  The Economist, July 6, 2012.

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• Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

  Samora Machel

  Reality, Salary, Wages

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• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Secular Society

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Boys, Men, Apples

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• No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Business, War, Philosophical

  "The Art of War" by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 7, as translated by Neal Wood (1965), 1520.

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