Mitt Romney Quotes

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.

Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

We must use time creatively.

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.

A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

We're starting to realize the limitations of oil income, that you can't live the life of Riley forever.

Being mayor takes a certain amount of creativity.

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

Our goals must be to find new, environmentally-friendly ways by which to continue the art of creation, to utilize our valuable human skills, and to make things that will bring joy.