Enterprise Quotes - page 4

The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism. (Paul A. Baran)
'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love. View quote
Rick Riordan
It would be more realistic to think of all economic enterprise as a public service. Thought of in this perspective, a private economy is a contradiction in terms. Every economy is a public or social (not socialist) economy. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
I believe art is a wholly formal enterprise, encompassing almost all the tenets that the nineteenth century spoke of as l'art pour l'art, tenets which have made twentieth century's experimentation possible. (What postmodern doesn't?) View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me. View quote
Helen Fielding
Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction. View quote
Arthur C. Brooks
Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government. View quote
Arthur C. Brooks
I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise. View quote
Arthur Henderson
The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late. View quote
Clayton Christensen
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. View quote
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise. (James Wolfe)
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. View quote
William Graham Sumner
Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised. View quote
Susan Glaspell
There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream. View quote
Jack Kemp
Growth and progress are related, for there is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. View quote
A. R. Ammons
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. View quote
Alvin Adams
Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security. View quote
B. Carroll Reece
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level. View quote
Bill Shorten
If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. (Denis Johnson)
I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives. View quote
Fred L. Turner
If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue. View quote
George Nethercutt
Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance. View quote
George R. Roberts
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence. View quote
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach