Quote by Thomas Sowell

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.

— George H. W. Bush

The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom…

— Fernand Braudel

“People forgot the fragility of our enterprise as a new nation, and sometimes forgot, too, how much we owed France for it.”

— Stephanie Dray

The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur

— George W. Bush

“Innovation = Invention ∗ Commercialization”

— Bill Aulet

Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.

— Emmanuel Macron

“All in all, French armies wrought much suffering in Europe, but they also radically changed the lay of the land. In much of Europe,…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“George W. Bush, the former US president, is reputed to have complained that the problem with the French is that they do not have…

— Ha-Joon Chang

“This is a very French trait. Today, if a big manufacturing company is in trouble, it will parachute in a graduate of one of…

— Stephen Clarke

“There could be some economic growth without innovation, relying on existing technology, but it was growth without creative destruction. And it did not last.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.

— Theodore Zeldin

France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.

— Francois Mitterrand