Jose Ferreira Quotes

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.

My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-generating expansion of existing businesses.

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty alleviation, innovation.

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

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.

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 have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.

Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Investing capital in the government creates more bureaucracy, more paperwork and inefficiency.

I have invested in companies. I have worked in companies. We have built companies; we have created jobs.

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.

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

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.

If we foster business growth and create opportunities, then our economy will again thrive.

America has a unique combination of talent, a vibrant business environment, and access to global markets, which has enabled U.S. companies like Intel to foster economic growth and innovation.

We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.

We are calling ourselves a startup nation, but the number of people who set out on their own is very low; even 10,000 a year would be low in a country like India. We can say we are a startup nation but the world won't say it.

Future prosperity will be built on private sector growth.

Entrepreneurship made America great.

Our partnership with the American Warren Buffett, from my perspective, is aimed at creating more jobs.

Israel is a producer of growth.