Vladimir Potanin Quotes

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

I strongly believe in a free market, and it is great when companies make money and pay their people well.

I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.

I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.

Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets.

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

Free enterprise is the only way for substantial growth.

There has been no country with a democratic political sphere, past or present, whose economy has not been dominated by private ownership and market coordination.

What is really at stake here is the survival of the kind of economy under which this country has grown great, the free-enterprise system

Free men engaged in free enterprise build better nations, but free enterprise is not a hunting license.

You have to have free enterprise for the many.

I know that some people in the U.S. associate the nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore, I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.

Free enterprise cannot only make us better off financially, it can make us better people.

I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system.

Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

If you don't believe in winning, you don't believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.

We need to move back toward a free market.

What makes business exciting is that you don't need a fancy degree, and anyone can do it.