Barack Obama Quotes

Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.

Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

I built a tremendous company and all I want to do is make America great again.

We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

We're only going to be able to compete in the world if we continue to be innovative.

America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

There is a huge amount of wealth that's generated here in Silicon Valley.

Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.