Ron Conway Quotes

Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.

In America, innovation does not just improve our lives. It is the way we make our living.

North Carolina is not going to be left behind.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

To live well in the second half of the 1990s and into the 21st Century, Australians have to produce and trade better than we have in the past….to improve workers' living standards and generate more jobs, we need to make major changes in the way our companies are managed and our factories produce wealth

This is an age pregnant with hope and possibilities.

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

I'm not happy exporting jobs but we must move ahead in technology and patents. I don't like losing any jobs but we'll see new opportunities created selling products there. We'll have a net increase in economic activity, just as we did with free trade. It's tempting to want to protect our markets and stay closed. But at some point it all comes crashing down and you're hopelessly left behind. Then you are Russia.

Make taxes as low as possible so entrepreneurs have incentive to work hard and be creative. The human mind is the secret to economic growth.

The most important family policy, urban policy, labor policy, minority policy, and foreign policy America can have is an expanding entrepreneurial economy of high-wage, high-skilled jobs.

Ideas are what power our economy.

There is, in my judgment, a great future before American manufacturing, commerce and trade, which will absorb millions of additional workers. When these workers are employed at good wages, as at present, they will buy farm products in a liberal way. The proportion of the American people engaged in industrial life doubtless will continue to increase, just as it has been doing.

India has the best opportunity ahead of us.

Our focus must be on making America the best place on earth to do business.

Things are going better: there is more growth, less deficit, more competitiveness, better margins for companies, more purchasing power for workers.

Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the world.