Rick Scott Quotes

We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.

Entrepreneurship made America great.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery.

I believe the private sector and small businesses drive our economy, and that means the federal government should work to ensure the private sector is as robust as possible.

I just believe that government borrowing and spending doesn't lead to economic prosperity, growth, or sustainable jobs. I know that it comes from the private sector: people who invest in their businesses and ideas.

GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

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.

Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.

We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.

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 most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

Capitalism works.

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

I'm one of those people who believes that part of the greatness of the United States is our private sector. It's what we do as private citizens for ourselves and our companies. And our economy is essentially the wonder of the world because, in fact, it's produced so much for us over the years. That's not government that does that.

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.