Edward Conard
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 find the one or two pieces that match.

Edward Conard
Edward Conard

Economics is counterintuitive. It just is.

Edward Conard
Edward Conard

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

Edward Conard
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 the field fighting the good fight.

Edward Conard
Edward Conard

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

Edward Conard
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 endeavoring to create innovation that grows our knowledge-based economy.

Edward Conard
Edward Conard

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

Edward Conard
Edward Conard

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

Edward Conard
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
Edward Conard

Talented people have a responsibility to get the training they need to be successful risk takers and go out there to take risks. What I see is surplus of talented people and a shortage of people willing to take the risks.

Edward Conard
Edward Conard

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

Edward Conard
Edward Conard

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

Edward Conard
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 does.

Edward Conard
Edward Conard

When I look around, I see a world of unrealized opportunities for improvements, an abundance of talented people able to take the risks necessary to make improvements, but a shortage of people and investors willing to take those risks.

Edward Conard
Edward Conard

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

Edward Conard
Edward Conard

Because my business partner, Mitt Romney, was running for president when 'Unintended Consequences' was published, the media held up my book as a defense of the 1 percent.

Edward Conard
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
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 result.

Edward Conard
Edward Conard

What is competent? Who is it that can adjudicate what is competent or not competent? If the guys that are running the most important banks in our country aren't competent enough, well then, who is competent enough?

Edward Conard
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 and Japan.