Grant Shapps Quotes

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

I love entrepreneurship because that's what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.

We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

We’re the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

American business is not a monster, but an expression of God-given impulse to create, and the savior of our happiness.

With patience, persistence, and partnership, we can create economic opportunity for every person willing to work hard for it.

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

It is free enterprise and the determination to succeed which generates opportunity and wealth for our society, and in doing so provides the money we need to deliver the high quality public services that we all want.

Growth is essential to providing economic opportunity.

I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere.

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?

Prosperity comes from the private sector.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

The business of America is business.

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.