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

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises quality health services and educational facilities.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Unfortunately corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

Hope is a state of mind not of the world. Hope in this deep and powerful sense is not the same as joy that things are going well or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.