William Graham Sumner Quotes

Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate, factories, or other enterprises, in order to give equal opportunities to all other regions.

We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.

I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work.

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

We need to get out of the way of the small business owner - and big business owners - and allow them to do what government can only dream of doing: creating jobs and thereby creating wealth.

So, look, in order to move our country forward, we have to do the things our parents and grandparents did. They believed enough in our country to invest in our country, to create jobs, to make modern investments. And those are the things that we need to get back to with a balanced approach.

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.

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

America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.

I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.'s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.

What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

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.

My experience is not creating debt but my experience is creating jobs.

Serbia is open for business.

Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

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

If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

Trade will increase trade, and money will beget money, and the trading world will need no more to want work for their hands, but will rather want hands for their work.

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.

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.