| "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "Years and sins are always more than owned." »Italian Proverb |
| "What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose." »Henry Ward Beecher |
| "Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." »Niccolo Machiavelli |
| "Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change." »Bertrand Russell |
| "We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd." »Anonymous |
| "Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600,000. No, I replied, I just spent 600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience" »Thomas John Watson, Sr. |
| "There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love." »Erich Fromm |
| "There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war." »Robert E. Lee |
| "A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise." »George Steiner |
| "Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research." »Marie Curie |
| "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country" »Sitting Bull |
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