Marcus Lemonis Quotes

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

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

Free men engaged in free enterprise build better nations, but free enterprise is not a hunting license.

Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

When I think about capitalism, I think about all the small businesses that were started because we have the opportunity and the freedom in America for people to do that and to make a good living for themselves and their families. And I don't think we should confuse what we have to do every so often in America, which is save capitalism from itself.

Republican Party is the party that stands for the people who are trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home, who are trying to give their kids a better life. And the only way that's possible is through the America free enterprise system.

Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.

...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.

If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be that private ownership of the means of production is a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being.... Only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art and literature.

You have to have free enterprise for the many.

Free enterprise cannot only make us better off financially, it can make us better people.

Democrats must say loudly and clearly that we are not socialists.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the land; the right of the workers to join together to seek better conditions of labor; the right of businessmen to use ingenuity and foresight to produce and distribute without arbitrary interference in a truly competitive economy.

I'm a big free-market individual.

As conservatives, we support free market principles and believe the private sector provides solutions that the government cannot.

If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy.

The American free enterprise system is the greatest tool to lift people out of poverty ever created in human history and when applied properly, does not discriminate by race, religion, or skin color.

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.

I believe in America. I believe in free enterprise.

I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.

Trust in our economic system and the genius and hard work of our citizens beyond the mandate and control of government.

I'm pro-free enterprise.

I believe in the free enterprise system.