Brad Feld Quotes

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.

I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work.

Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity.

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

As the metropolitan Atlanta area continues to grow, it's critical that we support small businesses and the prosperity of our local community.

Finding entrepreneurs from diverse and international backgrounds is a top priority for us at Y Combinator.

We need to open up private sector markets. We need to empower small business people, working Georgians, and entrepreneurs.

Venture for America operates in communities that could generally use more innovation: Detroit, New Orleans, Baltimore, and other U.S. cities. So I'm obviously a big believer in innovation and progress as key drivers of economic growth and prosperity.

Whether an economic boom is fueled by the fashion industry or technology innovations, it needs a brick-and-mortar foundation. This is not only true in New York and San Francisco; wherever you live, you can find a local hotspot positioned to attract interest from businesses, consumers and investors.

If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.

The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe.

Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy.

Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. I think we have something like 40,000 small businesses that are immigrant-run in New York.

Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.

I want to create economic opportunity at home and abroad. I don't want just one or the other. I want both.

I think one of the strengths of Wisconsin's economy is it's diversity - and in making sure that we're doing everything we can to have a state government that's responsive to that and being here and encouraging people to expand their businesses here.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.

I want to make Seoul more attractive. I want to make it a good investment.

We need to use all the resources at our disposal in order to prosper. We need more employment, and we need employment to be spread more fairly across society.