Famous Quotes & Sayings

From an economic and a market point of view, this was never likely to be a real kind of environment-changer - and hasn't been.

Narendra Modi

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

Edward Heath

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

There are two conflicting forces at work on the consumer. One is people have jobs, they have money, the unemployment rate is still at a 30-year low of 3.9 percent, a lot of economic circumstances are very, very favorable. A lot of economic circumstances are very, very favorable, people have money and jobs, but they don't have as high a discretionary spending level as they did a year ago.

Kim Campbell

Only strong, united representation from Quebec will enable us to work effectively on Montreal's economic recovery.

Mark Regev

On the economic front, we will be as forthcoming as we can,

Oskar Lafontaine

Only together can we find an effective long-term solution to Europe's economic and employment problems. Then the euro will be a real success,

One of the keys to economic development is transportation. Now (the candidates) can concentrate on each other and what each of us stand for.

one of their most effective tools for ensuring economic development.

I wish to state strongly that protectionist impulses have no place in modern economic governance.

E. B. White

If we're going to talk electricity policy, we have to talk about economic and industrial policy too.

Louise Arbour

China's rapid economic g rowth has resulted in tremendous progress in reducing poverty and improving the lives of people gradually,

China, South Korea and Japan all have large population, all suffer from resources shortage, but all have been seeking relatively rapid economic growth.

China's market is open to the outside. As long as the market is open to the outside, the more economic growth we have and the better for the world.

Mac Thornberry

China's incredible rate of economic growth and its corresponding increase in energy consumption has made the world supply tight.

Fatih Birol

If investments do not come in a timely and sufficient manner, there will be higher oil prices, and global economic growth will suffer.

Peter Green

Short-term, what the market is taking from the GDP report is that inflation is higher, and there's less economic growth than we thought, and that's putting a crimp on things today,

Manmohan Singh

Shortage of electricity is still a major inconvenience. Electricity is an essential ingredient of economic development. We need to ensure that electricity generation grows rapidly and that power shortages are eliminated.

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.

Dannel Malloy

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.

Tourism is an economic driver. If we get people here to spend money, then we all benefit.

You make more money gouging -- that's the problem. For strictly economic reasons, even with guidance and speeches by regulators, they're still not going to do it.

Oliver E. Williamson

The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Our educational system should make the Filipino fit not just for whatever jobs happen to be on offer today, but also for whatever economic challenge life will throw in their way.

George Papandreou

The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

Steven Rattner

India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Vladimir Putin

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

Tim Jackson

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Brunello Cucinelli

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

Vivek Wadhwa

Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.

Iris Apfel

The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.