When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any. . . Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice. . . If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.
Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.
Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
Advertising is the fuel of enterprise.
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.
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
I offer a better way for America with ideas that actually work, a reformed tax code that rewards free enterprise instead of just enterprising lobbyists. A reformed health care system that operates by free choice instead of by force and doesn't leave you answering to cold, clueless bureaucrats. A commitment to a renewed commitment to building a 21st Century military and giving our veterans the care that they were promised and the care that they earned.
Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.
There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end, when he says that the stories are so illuminating that they must be engraved and encased in gold and put in the palace library, the people who compile the book are telling us that this is a collection of human wisdom.
Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.
To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger
The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.
I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.
If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years
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.
I always just wanted to have enough to carry on. I never had ambitions to take over the world or be a global enterprise. But I wanted to have a strong business in order to do the main objective.