Paul Johnson Quotes

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

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.

Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.

In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.

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

Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.

For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create great new technology products and build high-tech companies.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

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.

Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution. Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.

I know in my state, I am leading innovation and we need to diversify the economy. But you can't have innovation unless you have education.

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

We're only going to be able to compete in the world if we continue to be innovative.

If you look at America, one of the great strengths of America is its university towns and the way a lot of their businesses and a lot of their innovation and enormous economic growth have come from reducing that gap, getting those universities directly involved in start-up businesses, green field businesses, new development businesses.

America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty alleviation, innovation.

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

The model of the U.S. economy is that we are the country that does new things.