Columbus Short Quotes

I've been a job creator. I've worked in the economy myself.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

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

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

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.

Ideas are what power our economy.

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.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Other than much needed infrastructure development, local administrations in Papua must encourage entrepreneurship and creativity.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.

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

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

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

What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

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

The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

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.

I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.