Rick Perry Quotes

There's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism we like. Vulture capitalism, no. And the fact of the matter is that he's going to have to face up to this at some time or another, and South Carolina is as good a place to draw that line in the sand as any.

I'm a businessman. I build things, create jobs - jobs that allow people to pay their mortgage, put food on the table, put their kids through college.

Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That's your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family and friends, banks, suppliers, customers and investors.

No party or event is without a reason. This is how we foster new relationships, open doors, and launch new ideas that create business opportunities, investments, and jobs in the U.S. and Spain.

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

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

We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses.

Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

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

I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.

Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.

Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.

My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.

I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.

You don’t produce development through aid; you produce it through private investment which creates jobs.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

Maine is competing with the rest of the country for jobs and for economic development and we're going to be on the front edge of that competition. And technology is one of the ways to do it.

Trade creates jobs.