Enterprise Quotes - Page 39

• I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

  Lou Gerstner

  Running, Business, Successful

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• The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests.

  Russell Kirk

  Real, Special, Principles

  Russell Kirk (1978). “The conservative mind: from Burke to Eliot”

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• I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Art, Reality

  "Leonard Cohen at 80". Interview with Mark Ellen, www.thetimes.co.uk. September 19, 2014.

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• A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.

  George Gilder

  Successful, Winning, Men

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.332, Regnery Publishing

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• I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Believe, Teaching, School

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Jobs, Mistake

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• You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries. And so we expect that the big enterprise people will just do that and we will certainly be providing binaries that have been through full industrial-strength QA, that have been through all the conformance testing.

  James Gosling

  People, Use, World

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• In the Java world, security is not viewed as an add-on a feature. It is a pervasive way of thinking. Those who forget to think in a secure mindset end up in trouble. But just because the facilities are there doesn't mean that security is assured automatically. A set of standard practices has evolved over the years. The Secure Coding Standard for Java is a compendium of these practices. These are not theoretical research papers or product marketing blurbs. This is all serious, mission-critical, battle-tested, enterprise-scale stuff.

  James Gosling

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I believe has contributed greatly to this country's amazing vigour and enterprise.

  Ian Wooldridge

  Funny, Country, Believe

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• The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!

  George Francis Train

  Years, Land, History

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• Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities, so they should be associated with one another in free associations, and democracy of that kind should be the foundational elements of a more general free society.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Community, Democracy

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• Free enterprise means that the more enterprising you are, the freer you are.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Mean, Free Enterprise, Enterprising

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• Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

  Carl Sagan

  New Horizons, Generations, Way

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• Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Self, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.134, Vivekananda Kendra

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• God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day”, p.100, Tyndale House

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• God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Silent, Partners

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• Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

  Paul Hawken

  Luck, Crafts, Break

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, Simon & Schuster

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• To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Mean, Looks

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• There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

  Iris Chang

  Country, Government, Engagement

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• Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, America, Freedom Of Speech

  Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation, www.reaganlibrary.gov. January 11, 1989.

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• There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Economy

  Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.15, eNet Press

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• I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Democracy, I Believe

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• Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Sovereign, Criteria

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• The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, and the Earth. When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise -- then we can build a noble environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we shall perish.

  Buddhadasa

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

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• It’s hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts.

  Pedro Noguera

  Thinking, Nuts, Experts

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