Lee R. Raymond Quotes

There's no question that technology is extraordinarily competitive.

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

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

In America, innovation does not just improve our lives. It is the way we make our living.

The best industrial policy is competition.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

The Internet free marketplace is defined by fierce competition. And that competition has transformed the world with innovation, investment, and what we need most of all right now: jobs.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

Competition is good and has served us well.

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.