George Lois Quotes

Science is inextricably linked to our economy. It has been for the last 50 years and it will be for the next 50 years.

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

I'm not happy exporting jobs but we must move ahead in technology and patents. I don't like losing any jobs but we'll see new opportunities created selling products there. We'll have a net increase in economic activity, just as we did with free trade. It's tempting to want to protect our markets and stay closed. But at some point it all comes crashing down and you're hopelessly left behind. Then you are Russia.

Maine is competing with the rest of the country for jobs and for economic development and we're going to be on the front edge of that competition. And technology is one of the ways to do it.

Simple projects such as paving roads, can do more to boost a poor economy than a premature push to develop cutting-edge technologies, but soon the benefits of basic infrastructure run their course.

… the brilliance of Coca-Cola capitalism:. By not owning its many distributors and by relying on native intermediaries in foreign nations, Coke could claim that it was a critical component of the local economy.... Once embedded in host communities, Coca-Cola became very difficult to dislodge, even in places where it caused serious environmental problems, because killing Coke meant killing jobs. In impoverished communities, ... the argument of dollars and cents won the day.

Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm.

As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.

Federal research is vital to the innovation that drives our local economy and global competitiveness.

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.

I want us to invest in your future. That means jobs in infrastructure, in advanced manufacturing, innovation and technology, clean, renewable energy, and small business, because most of the new jobs will come from small business.

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

When you innovate, the jobs can't go overseas because other countries haven't figured out how to do it yet.

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

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.

The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.

The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.

When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dearborn, or preserved jobs in Columbus, or preserved jobs in Pennsylvania, everyone was happy.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.

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

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.