George M. Church Quotes

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

I love the U.S. I love doing business there.

I will begin a new program to get private enterprise into the ghetto and the ghetto into private enterprise. I call it “Black Capitalism.” More black ownership of business and land and homes can be the multiplier of pride that will end our racial strife.

The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.

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

We can't just be the party of redistribution of wealth; we need to be the party of the creation of wealth in communities all over the country, not to just Silicon Valley, not just Wall Street, but all over.

I think that so-called capitalism and trade is a very important element in giving people opportunity.

America's small businesses and manufacturers are innovators ready to usher in a new wave of growth and opportunity if given access to foreign markets.

We are turning all Bolivians into capitalists.

In this country, we value our open, free-market system - including the way it attracts international investment and talent to our country.

What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

We must consider bringing forward legislation that will facilitate the creation and implementation of businesses in Haiti. Overall, we must better position the country to compete for new market opportunities.

When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit - Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing to pay for college, innovators borrowing on the strength of a good idea for a new product or technology, and businesses financing investments that create new jobs.

If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.

When you watch 'Shark Tank,' everything is about off-shore this, off-shore that.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvestment and businesses welcome.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

The chief business of the American people is business.