“The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.” PeopleShouldMeanRealityGovernmentRunningTurnsCommonClassGreaterEconomicMiddleStyleModelsConceptsCapitalismGainsIndependenceFinancialEnterpriseMiddle ClassElitesRegulationInherentFree EnterpriseCoupsGovernment RegulationFinancial IndependenceEconomic Models Author:James Morcan
“Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.” GainsLuckEmbraceWingsFortuneFavorsSatisfiedEnterpriseValorPortalBidding Author:Baltasar Gracian
“In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system.” GovernmentPoliticalOpportunityProcessSupportTaxesGainsSpendingEnterpriseExpensesNurtureDeficitAccumulationSubsidiesTax SystemDeficit Spending Author:Michael Parenti
“The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.” GovernmentMoralGainsExcitingEnterpriseFree MarketPublic ServiceCrossroadsRectitude Author:David Brooks
“We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.” IfsPlansGainsDollarsEnterpriseVenturePennies Book:T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928 Source: T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928
“The universe has fascinated mankind for many, many years, dating back to the very earliest episodes of Star Trek, when the brave crew of the Enterprise set out, wearing pajamas, to explore the boundless voids of space, which turned out to be as densely populated as Queens, New York. Virtually every planet they found was inhabited, usually by evil beings with cheap costumes and Russian accents, so finally the brave crew of the Enterprise returned to Earth to gain weight and make movies.” YearsEarthUniverseEvilFoundStarsSpaceMankindNew YorkPlanetsGainsWeightDatingBraveQueensEnterpriseFascinatedVoidEpisodesAccentsCrewCostumesBoundlessPajamas Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
“Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.” EnoughGovernmentSocialInterestGroupsInfluenceSpecialPromiseBenefitsGunCapitalismGainsDemocraticSufficientEnterpriseVotersMore MoneySpecial InterestsCooperativesInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:Gary North
“Sustaining innovation is the lifeblood of any enterprise. It is the time when we capitalize upon, and recover from, all the disruptive change prior. Most of the operating profits in the world come from sustaining innovation. Much of the market capitalization gains, on the other hand, come from disruptive innovations.” WorldHandsGainsInnovationProfitEnterpriseSustainingDisruptiveDisruptive InnovationCapitalization Author:Geoffrey Moore
“There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the end, inseparable. Those who would destroy freedom have only first to destroy the hope of gain, the profit of enterprise and risk-taking, the hope of accumulating capital, the hope to save something for one's old age and for one's children. For a community of men without property, and without the hope of getting it by honest effort, is a community of slaves of a despotic State.” MenFirstsChildrenEndsStatesAgeIndividualCommunityFreedomEffortDemocracyRiskHonestHonestyGainsPropertySlaveIndividualityProfitOld AgeEnterpriseInseparableRisk-takingPrivate Enterprise Author:Russell Cornell Leffingwell