Enterprise Quotes - Page 35

• Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. The only way we can advance is by going forward, individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take the risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.

  Ray Kroc

  Pride, Achievement, Risk

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.161, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For the first time in human history, we can agree on the basic story of the galaxies, the stars, the planets, minerals, life forms, and human cultures. This story does not diminish the spiritual traditions of the classical or tribal periods of human history. Rather, the story provides the proper setting for the teachings of all traditions, showing the true magnitude of their central truths.

  Brian Swimme

  Spiritual, Stars, Teaching

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• It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition. Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Competition, Wages, Banking

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• In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Men, Sea, Political

  "Political Education". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1951.

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• In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.

  John Lennox

  Results, Buried, Existence

  John C. Lennox (2009). “God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?”, p.210, Lion Books

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• Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration.

  Marc Benioff

  Keys, Collaboration, Needs

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• The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

  Donald Knuth

  Nice, House, Important

  Interview with Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Journal, April 1996.

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• My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.

  Peter Lynch

  Zero, Fun, Typical

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Saving, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden falls. I have most faith in the individual or enterprise that advances step by step. A mushroom can spring up in a day; an oak takes 50 years or more to reach maturity. Mushrooms don't last; oaks do. The real cause for an enormous number of business failures is premature over-expansion, attempting to gallop before learning to creep. Sudden successes often invite sudden reverses.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Spring, Real

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• Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing

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• Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• In racing marathons, one does not see the dropouts make fun of those who continue; failed runners actually cheer on those who continue the race, wishing they were still in it. Not so with the marathon of discipleship in which some dropouts then make fun of the spiritual enterprise of which they were so recently a part!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Cheer, Fun

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• What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ' I'm the most important organ, and the liver said 'I am, and I want to go in a free enterprise-system.'  You would rot away in a month, if every organ of your body, were out for itself.

  Jacque Fresco

  Competition, Brain, Important

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• Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other civilization. If they don't demand loyalty, they can't keep their civilization together. So what they do is they teach things that would support an established system. We do not advocate an established system. TVP talks of an emergent system into state of change. So that we always prepare people for the next changes coming ahead. So that people will not cling to the past.

  Jacque Fresco

  Loyalty, Past, Civilization

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  While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

  Barry Goldwater

  People, Stronger, Environment

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1970). “The conscience of a majority”, Prentice Hall

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• Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

  A. J. Muste

  Educational, Struggle, Class

  "Some Notes on Workers' Education" by A. J. Muste, first published in "New International", Volume 2, No. 7 (pp. 225-227), www.marxists.org. December 1935.

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• In today’s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries that remain about the workings of organisms.

  Francois Jacob

  Night, Impact, Competition

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• Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  People, Determined, Driven

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.17, Crown Business

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• Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Individual, Equal, Anarchism

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.23, SUNY Press

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• A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.

  William Peter Hamilton

  Owing, Newspapers, Interest

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• In actual
  fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible
  to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State pays for the
  blunders of private enterprise Profit is private and individual.
  Loss is public and social.

  Gaetano Salvemini

  Loss, Pay, Facts

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• There isn’t a person at the Koch brothers events who would not get a good return on their investment by investing in [Santorum] as president, because of what they believe about the free enterprise system.

  Foster Friess

  Brother, Believe, President

  "Super PACs echo parodies" by Kenneth P. Vogel, www.politico.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Let's face it, the romantic scene between the Romulan Commander and Spock [in “The Enterprise Incident”] was totally out of context. Any Romulan worth her salt would have instantly suspected Spock because they are related races. That was wrongmy biggest objection is the scene between Spock and the woman, because I really did not believe it. And I did not believe that the Romulan did not suspect Spock of something underhanded. She does know enough about Vulcan and Vulcans to know that something's afoot.

  D. C. Fontana

  Believe, Race, Doe

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• The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the homelands is felt within a decade in the foreign mission-fields, and the records of missionary enterprises and the pages of missionary biography following I860 are full of clearest evidence of the stimulating effect of the Revival throughout the world.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Foundation, Missionary, Records

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