Rick Santorum Quotes

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

My goal with our American Made program is to inspire people of all ages to become 'doers,' whether it's them learning how to make an easy weekday dinner or starting their own business.

If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.

In America, innovation does not just improve our lives. It is the way we make our living.

American business is not a monster, but an expression of God-given impulse to create, and the savior of our happiness.

Entrepreneurs bring to business... creativity.

As a nation, America is at its best when we are thinking and making things and exporting to the world.

I always found creative ways to make money since I was pretty young kid.

If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with.

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

When there is no work, I create my own.

Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty alleviation, innovation.

There are two kinds of people... There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who go and make. And I've always recognized that. So the dreamers are what support our company because they will buy the product that they could make if they wanted to, had time to, or were so inclined to.

For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative.

Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.