Robert J. Bentley Quotes

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

Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.

Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy.

A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.

I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.

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

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

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process.

The market economy itself was not a product of violent action—of revolutions—but of a series of gradual peaceful changes. The implications of the term “industrial revolution” are utterly misleading.

30 years after China embarked on its fitful embrace of the free market, it has no single unifying doctrine—no ‘central melody’—and there is nothing predestined about what kind of country it is becoming.

I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.

Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.

Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit.

The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically free society unless the major part of its economic resources are operated under a capitalistic private enterprise system.

Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind.

The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.

President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.

On a very, very basic level, I'm definitely pro market because with the market comes the idea of the individual and the idea of specialisation, and I personally like being an individual and choosing my interactions. I don't see culture moving away from that, like back to a farming society. You couldn't do that with the amount of people we have.

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.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

Africa needs access to markets.

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.