Best 116 quotes in «enterprise quotes» category

Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they built slums; and they thought it right and advisable to build slums because slums, on the test of private enterprise, "paid", whereas the wonder-city would, they thought, have been an act of foolish extravagance, which would, in the imbecile idiom of the financial fashion, have "mortgaged the future"; though how the construction to-day of great and glorious works can impoverish the future, no man can see until his mind is beset by false analogies from an irrelevant accountancy.

If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree

I’m most endeared to the fact that they used gifts and talents that were taught to them by other enterprising women who looked just like them. These are gifts and talents they brought with them from Africa and other distant shores. These were gifts and talents women used to appease their owners, and make their lives comfortable. These were gifts and talents used to fuel economies and for building communities. In one book I read, nickels from the sale of chicken eggs paid the college tuition of three children.

[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

Never underestimate the power of an educated person that has committed to shutting down your biologically toxic enterprise.

Sensuality is the ultimate path to breaking through plateaus in business particularly for the new breed of women entrepreneurs.

Still, I knew from that first moment that my tour on the Enterprise was going to be something special.” He shrugged. “The name carries that level of expectation, you know?

The best way to become essential for the companies that buy your products is to help them grow their business (i.e., to produce meaningful ROI) in unique ways. That is what solving customer problems is all about, and it’s as neat an encapsulation of the difference between enterprise and consumer software as we can offer.

Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S. Enterprise?

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

Until every team member views the company as an interdependent enterprise, you will never have an owner company.

Your outcome is not necessarily decided by your income, but by your outlook. To improve your out look, look inwards.

Advertising is the fuel of enterprise.

A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.

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.

Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow.

All great enterprises are self-supporting.

All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

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.

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.

At the enterprise level, businesses have the talent and budget to create and enforce policies that prevent staffers from installing things themselves.

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

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

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

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.

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now

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

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

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

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

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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