#enterprise

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #enterprise




Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.


William Graham Sumner


#believes #character #enterprise #experience #great

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

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

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

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.


Arthur C. Brooks


#around #contrast #earn #economic #enables

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.


Fred Upton


#array #best #broad #choices #deserve

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

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.


Barbara Ehrenreich


#democratic #enterprise #even #free #free enterprise

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.


Henry A. Wallace


#because #competition #democracy #distrust #energetic

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.


Arthur Henderson


#abandoning #adventure #become #building #collective