#enterprise

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#leisure #love

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. ↗

— Robert Frost

#enterprise #faith

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#enterprise #life #new-clothes #old-clothes #life

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work... ↗

— Albert Einstein

#tenacity #work

Vision without execution is hallucination. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#vision

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#self-determination #determination

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminals #degeneration #enterprise #originality #pencils

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#astray #completely #conjecture #contact #enterprise

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. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#along #been #browser #build #client

In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#enterprise #entire #financial #form #information