“Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.” WorldYearsTodayFiveAdventureHundredDiscoveryYears AgoExcitingSpeciesErasOur TimeEnterpriseNew WorldLive For TodayGreat Adventure Author:Michael Crichton
“... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.” FiveStyleSeriousMassHundredRemainsStoresSignificantVideoEnterpriseTrendsPotatoesCablesCouchesPopcornAvailabilityLife StyleSerious Life Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.” IfsMenGovernmentWould BeAgeTurnsPoliticsEasyDifficultLeadershipPoorPayStreetsTalentKingsBenefitsHundredTownsCourtAffairLawyerBoardsEnterpriseFarmersArchitectEngineersGovernorsEstatesExtensionsJohnsonEmperorCountyFeesCombiningPrivate EnterpriseGood Husband Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.” WorldYearsHas BeensMadeAmericaPastChallengesRecordsProgressCenturyMaterialsAchievementHundredFiftyEnterpriseWorld History Author:Karl Taylor Compton
“Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have to know what you're doing, do it, and move on.” PeopleKnowsTwoRunningMovingResponsibilityHundredOddEnterpriseKeep It Moving Author:William Monahan