Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Free men engaged in free enterprise build better nations, but free enterprise is not a hunting license.

Where the rules of the road are not there, then there’s a tremendous amount of opportunity for entrepreneurs to bring in their innovation and their different way of thinking.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

Ordinary Chinese can actually make choices about their own lives which wasn’t possible 25 years ago.

A wise and frugal Government shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Look with favor on the merchants of the land; always care for them; let no one order them about, for through their trading the land becomes prosperous ...

Institutions-government, churches, industries, and the like-have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Regulation of private enterprise and not Government ownership or operation is the course rightly to be pursued in our relation to business.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

... a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

The people were told in the last campaign that trusts [corporate monopolies] were a natural evolution, and that the only way to deal with them was to regulate them. The people are tired of being told such things. What they want is the kind of opportunity that formerly existed in this country.

We want to be sure that it is more profitable to play by the rules than it is to game the system.

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men. The sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient; the duty of superintending the industry of private people, and of directing it towards the employments most suitable to the interest of the society.

Trust and transparency, the great principles of the free market, are at stake here.

The best thing that governments can do is get out of business. When governments interfere less, managers can do their jobs better.

The Nordic governments have adopted a market-friendly approach to regulation. Although they maintain regulations to protect workers, consumers and the environment, they balance those protections with a system that encourages entrepreneurship and flexibility by making it easy to start or close a business, to hire or fire employees, and to adjust work hours.

The American economy must be altered to put business back in the driver's seat. The correct role for finance is to support job creation.

I travel all the time, but when I come back to the South, I see such progress. In a real sense, a great deal of the South has been redeemed. People feel freer, more complete, more whole, because of what happened in the movement.

The question for America is pretty simple: either we want a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington telling us what we can't do, or we empower American innovators to unlock things that we can do.

I'm a utopianist.

If people are not patient and want radical change, it could set China back in a way to harm a lot of people. I advocate more freedom based on stability.