Charles E. Wilson Quotes

This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.

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

I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.

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.

The robber barons were a blessing to America. They got filthy rich but they took enormous risks and were entitled to get rich.

The entrepreneurial spirit is the hallmark of the American economic system

Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.

Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.

If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards.

Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

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

It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.