Jean-Pierre Chevenement Quotes

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.

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

I would say as emphatically as I can that private enterprise—local and foreign—must respond if the Alliance [for Progress] is to succeed .... [it] must respond by building the factories, the marketing and the service companies which are the manifestations of mature, developed economies. If the private sector fails, then our own public aid programs will have little effect.

Labor alone creates and pays the profits of capital.

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

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Small businesses create half of the jobs in the private sector.

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

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.

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.

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their own risk, in setting up a business or expanding an existing business.

You are the biggest part of the population in the state. You create its wealth.

Labor is the only means of creating wealth.

It is evident of what great concernment it is to a Prince [a ruler], to encourage and increase the trade, and manufacture of his own people.

I will begin a new program to get private enterprise into the ghetto and the ghetto into private enterprise. I call it “Black Capitalism.” More black ownership of business and land and homes can be the multiplier of pride that will end our racial strife.

The state does not possess trade or industry. Its wealth is the wealth of the people and the people’s wealth is not possible without the spread of these sciences amongst them so that they may know the ways for acquiring wealth.

It’s the private sector that produces the jobs, but the private sector needs roads and an educated workforce.

You don’t produce development through aid; you produce it through private investment which creates jobs.

Ideas are what power our economy.

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

The appropriate role of government is to provide the framework that allows capital to flow freely, in accord with the law of supply and demand. That is how jobs, businesses and wealth are created. The government would have no money to distribute or spend without the tax revenue generated from the jobs and businesses that are the fruit of our capitalist system.

We need to grow the private sector in every corner of New Mexico.

Traditionally in capitalism, when you have more cash, you can fund more activity, which produces more jobs and creates more wealth. That's basic economic theory.