Barack Obama Quotes

No party or event is without a reason. This is how we foster new relationships, open doors, and launch new ideas that create business opportunities, investments, and jobs in the U.S. and Spain.

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

Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation.

Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.

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

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

As business people, we have to remind ourselves that it's up to us to create jobs. It's up to us as business people to drive the economy, and no one else.

Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

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

If we foster business growth and create opportunities, then our economy will again thrive.

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

We are calling ourselves a startup nation, but the number of people who set out on their own is very low; even 10,000 a year would be low in a country like India. We can say we are a startup nation but the world won't say it.

Israel is a producer of growth.

My administration will continue to engage the private sector to increase economic opportunities and look for ways to improve our already top notch business environment.

Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

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.

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

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

For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses.

You're not going to build private-sector jobs if you don't like business people.

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.