Sam Graves Quotes

Without development there is no profit, without profit no development.

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people.

We need banks and financiers and entrepreneurs to take risks because that's how economies grow over time.

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

Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion.

How could anyone ever build a company if they didn't have investments? It doesn't make any sense.

With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

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.

I see opportunities in all my businesses. And the reason is simple. We thrive on countries that are urbanizing.

We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

There are a lot of people who get support from a thriving business.

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

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

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.

Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-generating expansion of existing businesses.

Every American business, from the biggest companies to small hardware companies, need money to flow through the system not only to create new jobs but to sustain existing jobs.

Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.

I took a risk and invested in SM Mall of Asia because I wanted to create something that could contribute to Philippine tourism growth.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.