Helmut Sohmen Quotes

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.

Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information across the globe. But globalisation is also a view of the world - it is an opinion about man and why men are on the world.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

I'm not a communist - I believe in the free market and that entrepreneurs should be allowed to take risks because it creates wealth and jobs, but I draw the line at people risking other people's money. That's deplorable.

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

Free enterprise is the only way for substantial growth.

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.

Government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.

I'm pro-free enterprise.

I believe in the free enterprise system.

America's small businesses and manufacturers are innovators ready to usher in a new wave of growth and opportunity if given access to foreign markets.

Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise. No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.

I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.