Enterprise
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichTopics: Enterprise, Famous, Feelings, Gold, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Possession, Soul
American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Connected, Enterprise, Famous, Feelings, Free, Meaningful, Overlooks, Possibility, Prosperity, World
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn’t start writing music until he was four.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Enterprise, Famous, Meaningful, Profits, Writing
A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Beyond, Business, Capable, Economy, Enterprise, Famous, Individuals, Meaningful
The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Business, Enterprise, Famous, Functions, Meaningful
The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Definition, Enterprise, Famous, Meaningful, Producing
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Business, Enterprise, Famous, Justified, Meaningful, Society
It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, The enterprise must demand it of him.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Enterprise, Famous, Matter, Meaningful, Responsibility
Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Development, Enterprise, Famous, Meaningful, Teaching
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Enterprise, Famous, Meaningful
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Enterprise, Famous, Meaningful, Periods, Present
The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Business, Customer, Enterprise, Famous, Important, Meaningful, Remember, Results, Satisfied, Single
My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh.
Author: Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Enterprise, Entertaining, Entertainment business, Genuine happiness, Genuine laughter, Pain, Painful, Reason, Reasonable, Solving, Somebody
There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Author: Milton FriedmanTopics: Activities, Alternative, Candle, Discovered, Enterprise, Famous, Improving, Meaningful, Ordinary, People, People’s, Productive, Unleashed
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
Author: Milton FriedmanTopics: Enterprise, Famous, General, Life, Meaningful
Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It’s not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.
Author: Neil deGrasse TysonTopics: Enterprise, Famous, Feelings, Frontiers, Inspirational, Meaningful
The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.
Author: Benito MussoliniTopics: Consideration, Enterprise, Famous, Instrument, Meaningful, National, Nations, Production, Responsible, State