Great Enterprises Quotes

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

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

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers.

A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.