Joe Lonsdale Quotes

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

Labor is the only means of creating wealth.

A generation of entrepreneurs will mop up poverty at a rate that no government ever could.

American business is not a monster, but an expression of God-given impulse to create, and the savior of our happiness.

You can invest as much as you want in infrastructure and education. But in the end people have to be allowed to make a profit from their work.

Make taxes as low as possible so entrepreneurs have incentive to work hard and be creative. The human mind is the secret to economic growth.

The American middle class used to be envy of the world. It was a byproduct of economic freedom. We had a very dynamic free-market economy and limited government. People were out there pursuing their own self-interest and creating employment opportunities.

The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American's needs for a skilled work force.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

Policies to strengthen education and training, to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and to promote capital investment, both public and private, could all potentially be of great benefit in improving future living standards in our nation.

What is the upside of inequality? I would say that it's a deep pool of properly trained, highly motivated talent that is endeavoring to create innovation that grows our knowledge-based economy.

Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.

'Make in India' is great, but 'Make It Happen in India' is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It's about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering.

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

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.