Ajit Pai Quotes

An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.

I love the ingenuity of British entrepreneurs.

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they tell me to just get government out of the way and they'll create the jobs and grow on their own.

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.

I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.

Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.

What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

The entrepreneurial spirit is the hallmark of the American economic system

I am not a creature of giant business and I think that small- and medium-sized businesses will derive the most benefit from the removal of bureaucratic obstacles to trade.

India is a fertile ground for entrepreneurs, given its large pool of world-class talent and resources. India's ability to generate wealth and create social good will come if we let entrepreneurs flourish by encouraging and enabling innovation.

American workers and American entrepreneurs can compete with anybody, anywhere if our government will stop making America a cost-prohibitive place to do business.

The Internet, like most successful American innovations, have not thrived because of heavy-handed government regulation.

We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I saw my father deal with every headache the government threw his way - whether it had to do with the signs on the front of the building or the prices on the showroom floor. He knew he could do better, if government would just get out of the way - and stay out of the way. He was right.

I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

Job creators should be able to focus on their work - not on Washington's busy-work.