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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises. ↗

— Sally Ride

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I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

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