We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

There is a vein of distrust in the marketplace for many big deals. They are viewed not as a safe haven, but a financial bailout for the issuers and the shareholders of the parent company.