Fred L. Turner Quotes

New products, new markets, new investors, and new ways of doing things are the lifeblood of growth. And while each innovation carries potential risk, businesses that don't innovate will eventually diminish.

Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.

Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.

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.

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

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

Private companies should be building businesses.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

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

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

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

'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.'

Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.

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

Business is at the heart of America and always has been.

Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.