spirit of enterprise

noun

1. the motivation to set up and succeed in business or commerce

Example Sentences

The very spirit of enterprise that lured Smithson’s money in the first place could also be associated with a kind of restlessness, mounting recurring challenges to the established order.

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“The more China liberalizes its economy, the more fully it will liberate the potential of its people — their initiative, their imagination, their remarkable spirit of enterprise. And when individuals have the power, not just to dream but to realize their dreams, they will demand a greater say.”

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Without a strong navy, Hamilton feared the fruits of America’s “unequaled spirit of enterprise,” extolled in Federalist No. 11 as “an inexhaustible mine of national wealth,” would become “prey to the wanton intermeddlings of all nations at war with each other.”

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She has also won the Chamber of Commerce "Spirit of Enterprise" award, for members who vote with the group more than 70% of the time, seven years in a row and was the lone Democrat to receive the award last year It was a startling departure from an activist who decried the ills of capitalism two decades earlier.

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President Ronald Reagan, in his State of the Union address that year, named her as an example of the American “spirit of enterprise,” recalling her rise “from a ghetto to build a multimillion-dollar advertising agency in Chicago.”

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