Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything."
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Benjamin Graham
Investor, Author
"Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap."
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society."
Plato
Philosopher
"The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning."
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"I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy."
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"Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise."
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"Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer."
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"No enterprise can exist for itself alone."
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"A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise."
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"We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company."
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"Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art."
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"Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise."
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"Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises."
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"The government can supply no substitute for enterprise."
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"God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises."
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"Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now"
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"Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise."
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"The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it."
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"The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business."
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"For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise."
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"I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise."
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"I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth."
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"Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise."
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"Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal."
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