#enterprise

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #enterprise #courage

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

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

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group. ↗

— James Cameron

#efforts #enterprise #ever #exactly #going

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. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#alone #deeply #enterprise #large #others

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#cause #earth #enterprise #grand #grand thing

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#failed #humiliating #idiots #more #nothing

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#audience #cgi #consistently #emotion #enterprise

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#causes #colony #condition #enterprise #farmers