Edward Conard

God didn't create the universe so that talented people would be happy.

— Edward Conard

The willingness to take risk is largely a function of wealth.

— Edward Conard

The job of every president is to ride herd over Congress.

— Edward Conard

Economics is counterintuitive. It just is.

— Edward Conard

I try not to delve too deep into policy.

— Edward Conard

Most citizens are consumers, not investors. They don't recognize the benefits to consumers that come from investment.

— Edward Conard

I have no interest in bailing out anybody, quite frankly, and I think banks have to suffer every dollar of loss if…

— Edward Conard

Innovation is like looking for pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. You have to find a lot of pieces that don't match to…

— Edward Conard

To advocate both for more immigration and for faster wage growth for the working and middle class is to work at cross-purposes.

— Edward Conard

I am the individual who formed and funded W Spann LLC. I authorized W Spann LLC's contribution to Restore Our Future PAC.…

— Edward Conard

Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting…

— Edward Conard

Because my business partner, Mitt Romney, was running for president when 'Unintended Consequences' was published, the media held up my book as…

— Edward Conard

What is the upside of inequality? I would say that it's a deep pool of properly trained, highly motivated talent that is…

— Edward Conard

When I look around, I see a world of unrealized opportunities for improvements, an abundance of talented people able to take the…

— Edward Conard

High-skilled workers increasingly choose lucrative jobs that don't serve or supervise low-skilled workers. Low-skilled productivity and wage growth has lagged as a…

— Edward Conard

We have to make sure that the banks pay every nickel of loan losses that they create, but we don't want to…

— Edward Conard

Republicans' focus on defunding or scaling back Obamacare - an unpopular entitlement program - rather than entitlements generally, namely Social Security and…

— Edward Conard

Unfortunately, we have to dial down low-skilled immigration. We have to recognize that there is more unemployment among the lesser-skilled workers than…

— Edward Conard

What is competent? Who is it that can adjudicate what is competent or not competent? If the guys that are running the…

— Edward Conard

Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence.

— Edward Conard

In today's information-driven economy, business and scientific talent constrains growth.

— Edward Conard

When rewards go up, people are more inclined to take risks.

— Edward Conard

Lesser-skilled workers suffer the entire burden of lower wages but capture only a portion of the benefits from lower-priced offshore goods.

— Edward Conard

In the 1950s and 1960s, an explosion of great corporate jobs, together with a restricted supply of labor, produced healthy wage growth.

— Edward Conard

When all is said and done, you're either for investment and risk taking as a solution for what ails the economy, or…

— Edward Conard

As the news media eagerly report on polls showing that millennials increasingly reject capitalism, progressives energetically push the Democratic Party to the…

— Edward Conard

The United States ran the table on Internet innovations, creating companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Twitter, Amazon, eBay, YouTube,…

— Edward Conard

Making products for $17 an hour that we could have purchased for 75 cents an hour wastes resources that we could have used elsewhere.

— Edward Conard

While it's a shame that more businessmen like Andy Puzder aren't helping to form America's economic policy, at least he's still on…

— Edward Conard

Talented people have a responsibility to get the training they need to be successful risk takers and go out there to take…

— Edward Conard

There are two ways to think about the one percent - the Bernie Sanders way, where we're all competing for a zero-sum…

— Edward Conard

Let's not kid ourselves about just how cheap offshore labor really is. We not only pay substantially less per hour: we also…

— Edward Conard

You have to motivate people to take almost certain failure to get a small amount of success, which has driven our economy…

— Edward Conard

We have made a decision in our economy to lower taxes on successful risk-taking and have been very successful relative to Europe…

— Edward Conard