Enterprise Quotes

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”
― Albert Einstein

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
― John Wooden

“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
― Émile Zola

“You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“A vision without execution is an hallucination.”
― Jeffrey E. Garten, The Mind Of The CEO: The World's Business Leaders Talk About Leadership, Responsibility The Future Of The Corporation, And What Keeps Them Up At Night

“By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
― Robert Frost

“Don’t complain; just work harder.”
― Randy Pausch

“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”
― Elbert Hubbard

“We are what we are: a handful of dust, and although life remains a temporal enterprise, we recognize we have a mission. Through resilience and empathy, we can take a walk on the path of thought and wonder and brighten up the hazy remains of the day. (“A handful of dust”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
― Robert Schuller

“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, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

“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, Walden

“Darling it's all a crapshoot with Gable. Never know if you're rolling snake eyes.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

“The success of an enterprise is determined not only by its financial success but also by the positive influence it has on people's lives and the progress of a country.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Why Nepal Fails

“Don't tease yourself about her, Gareth! after all, she is quite safe while she remains with us.'

'You are as bad as she is,' said Sir Gareth severely.

'Yes, but not nearly so resourceful,' she agreed.”
― Georgette Heyer, Sprig Muslin

“How is my insanity working out for your toxic enterprise?”
― Steven Magee

“The paint on the two-story brick building blistered in the heat like sunburnt skin.” ”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Catch .22

“If you had more money than you knew what to do with, what would you desire?”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

“Generosity is a wonderful introduction.”
― Jacky Fitt, How to Be in Business: Build the Mindset and Marketing to Adapt and Succeed as a Startup

“Every country has its myths, and one that successful Indians liked to indulge was a romance of instability and adaptation—the idea that their country’s rapid rise derived in part from the chaotic unpredictability of daily life. […] In India, a land of few safe assumptions, chronic uncertainty was said to have helped produce a nation of quick-witted, creative problem-solvers. Among the poor, there was no doubt that instability fostered ingenuity, but over time the lack of a link between effort and result could become debilitating.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity