Lee Myung-bak Quotes

Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they tell me to just get government out of the way and they'll create the jobs and grow on their own.

I am not a creature of giant business and I think that small- and medium-sized businesses will derive the most benefit from the removal of bureaucratic obstacles to trade.

We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.

We must deregulate, we must provide an investment climate by giving incentives.

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

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.

Global economic growth significantly increases with the growth of the world’s economic freedom.

Bottom line: government shouldn't be a bottleneck for entrepreneurs looking to design a better mousetrap.

If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.

In Maryland, we consider ourselves pro-growth Americans.

The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead of harnessing it with onerous regulations and a repressive tax code.

Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch are very clear. They would love to have government just get out of the way and allow companies to compete, whether in their particular sectors or other sectors. They are true believers in small government.

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.

An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.

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

In Poland we still believe - and this certainly applies to my government - that greater competitiveness, and greater growth and savings are possible in an economy which is as sparely regulated as possible, where freedom, competition and private ownership are key values.

Look with favor on the merchants of the land; always care for them; let no one order them about, for through their trading the land becomes prosperous ...

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

The best industrial policy is competition.

I believe that we need to take government out of business, and then we need to take business and put business back into government because government has no place in our businesses

Mr. Icahn will be a leader in helping American entrepreneurs shed job-killing regulations that stifle economic growth.