Best 116 quotes in «enterprise quotes» category

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.

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.

Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.

Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls.

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.

Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now

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

Enterprises have customers! Ask them for feedback and you can compete with startups!

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

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

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

Free enterprise is the sure and so far the only known way of constantly improving the well-being of mankind.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

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

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

Governments never supply prosperity.  At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work.  Usually they suppress it.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting.

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.

I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

Income is sucked upward to the creditors, who then foreclose on the assets of debtors. This shrinks tax revenue, forcing public budgets into deficit. And when governments are indebted, they becomemore subject to pressure to privatization of public enterprise.

In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.

I think that Enterprise was getting better and better, actually, and if it had kept going, I think it would've turned into as good a show as any other in the Star Trek franchise.

I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.

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

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone.

Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

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.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.