19 Quotes Tagged: enterprise

[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

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.

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.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...

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.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

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.

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.

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.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.