John Morgridge Quotes

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

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

We have talented people, great businesses, and an unparalleled entrepreneurial spirit in Montana. By raising capital, Montanans can leverage those assets to start new businesses, expand existing ones, and create more good-paying jobs in Missoula and every other community under the Big Sky.

Industry is important, but everyone thinks money is important.

I had the good fortune to be raised in the 1940s and the 1950s. As I entered business in the late 1950s and 1960s, America was just coming into its own as a great industrial power. It allowed young entrepreneurs to start their engines, to start their businesses, to borrow a little money and to leverage what they had.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity!

This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in free enterprise and capitalism system. [...[ And, yes, free enterprise system can be cruel. But the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the one who had suffered the most, the kind that need investors, the kinds that don't need the hundreds of pages, thousands of pages of regulations that continue to plague them and have them hold back on the hiring investment.

The left hates capitalism, not because of freedom and liberty - although they do. But the primary they hate capitalism is that it is the most efficient engine to create wealth for the greatest number of people in a society that has ever been devised. Nobody's ever claimed it's perfect. Nobody's ever said it's flawless. But it's better than anything else out there, particularly anything left has to offer.

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.

I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty.

If you start free trade with a Communist country, allow them to develop their own businesses, they don't remain communistic. They become a free society when they're able to make money themselves, and we increase trade with them and allow them to really produce products.

Africa's vibrancy and entrepreneurial spirit is un-matched. There's huge potential here to grow business, create jobs, and to improve living standards.

We need to open up private sector markets. We need to empower small business people, working Georgians, and entrepreneurs.

The contrast between a figure such as Mark Zuckerberg, a billionaire before he was 30, and Alfred Krupp, who spent 60 years building one of the biggest manufacturing concerns in the world, is striking.

Every success story in this country was because of capitalism. Everything we're doing. Look at my story. It couldn't be done.

To stimulate the economy, we need to give entrepreneurs the means to create wealth.

Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.

In this country, we value our open, free-market system - including the way it attracts international investment and talent to our country.

Capitalism is the engine that has grown economies.

Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.