Sendhil Mullainathan

Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally.

American Economist

Henry David Thoreau

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

American Author

James Fenimore Cooper

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

American Writer

Leland Stanford

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

American Businessman

Jim Ross

Long before social media and even television, enterprising wrestling promoters wisely scouted and signed new stars that would not only help them sell tickets, but also garner publicity from mainstream sports media.

American Entertainer

Mother Angelica

Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.

American Educator

Suniel Shetty

I believe that when you have only one life, it makes sense to live it to the full - so whatever interesting and enterprising comes my way, I want to get into.

Indian Actor

Said Musa

The instinct to improve oneself materially is necessary for growth. It is at the fountain of the enterprising spirit which drives private enterprise.

Statesman

Erwin McManus

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

Diana Taylor

It's absolutely astounding how enterprising people are.

American Public Servant

Focus on people initiating projects, indicating drive and determination to succeed.

Action Oriented

Highlights individuals taking initiative, often as self-starters without needing external motivation.

Self-Driven Success

Indicates using innovation to overcome challenges, often in unexpected ways.

Creative Problem-Solving

Emphasizes quick, effective responses to opportunities or challenges in the business world.

Business Agility

Refers to the ability to spot and exploit market opportunities swiftly.

Market Opportunism

Connotes making important business choices that require strategic thinking and risk assessment.

Strategic Decision-Making

Focuses on the courage to undertake risks in pursuits, especially when starting new projects.

Venture Bravery

Emphasizes being first to explore or do something groundbreaking, associated with boldness.

Pioneering Drive

Highlights the aspect of embarking on new ventures that might be unproven yet thrilling.

Adventurous Undertaking

 swim slalom-wise to get through them without them knocking you on the head, which never been hit by a manta ray, which is, you know knock on, is this real wood? Knock on wood. Great. Manta rays, you know, when the plankton's gone, they leave. And there's a few enterprising rays that have figured out that plankton hides on the seabed.

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 By then, he'd built his one truck into a big trucking company. He borrowed money from an enterprising vice president at Citibank in New York, and set about designing the steel boxes and the decks of the ships to carry them stacked one on top of another. A lot of people thought he was crazy.

How Containerization...

 the Indus people were very, very enterprising. They used to trade with people pretty far away from where they lived, and so in this case, they were traveling by sea all the way to Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq. And what seems to have happened here is that the Indus traders, the merchants,

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 But along at the end of the '80s came an enterprising businessman who became mayor named Ron Norick. Ron Norick eventually figured out that the secret to economic development wasn't incentivizing companies up front, it was about creating a place where businesses wanted to locate,

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 But Egypt's political and economic autonomy was gradually increasing, and its government was eager to pursue the project. When Sa’id Pasha came into power in 1854, he approved a plan from the enterprising and manipulative French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps.

How the Suez Canal...

 as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie. Ladies and gentlemen, the most enterprising people in Africa cannot find opportunities to trade and to work in the private sector

Andrew Mwenda: Let's...

 He's now developing not only the Cardiopad, but other mobile medical devices to treat different conditions. And he isn't alone, because there are many other inspiring and enterprising designers

Pirates, nurses and...

 curated by their owners, rulers and aristocrats, as well as merchants and early scientists. Now, who hears a circus organ? In the 1840s, an enterprising young showman named Phineas T. Barnum

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 century belfry overlooking the town square enterprising visitors can climb 366 steps for a panoramic view of the city the medieval structures blend harmoniously with the neo gothic

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 In 1984, an enterprising Australian doctor named Barry Marshall decided to take a risk. Too many of his patients were complaining of severe abdominal pain due to stomach ulcers,

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