Economic Growth Quotes

• Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, Business, Entrepreneur

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

  Tony Blair

  Real, Growth, Progress

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• Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

  Amartya Sen

  Growth, Development, Investment

  "Amartya Sen: India's dirty fighter". Interview With Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2013.

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• Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

  John F. Kennedy

  Business, People, Growth

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.178, Best Books on

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• Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

  Henry Paulson

  Odds, Opposites, Growth

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• There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Patriotic, Intelligence Services

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• Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

  Phil Gramm

  Government, People, Growth

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• Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.

  Manmohan Singh

  Men, Growth, Vision

  Manmohan Singh, Smita Vats Sharma, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2005). “Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: June 2005 to May 2006”

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• ... the best way to help the poor is to promote economic growth and job creation

  Myron Magnet

  Jobs, Growth, Way

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• The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards.... high rates of investment and saving usually have a big payoff in promoting economic growth.

  Paul Samuelson

  Philosophy, Real, Political

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• Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

  Hannah Arendt

  Growth, One Day, May

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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• Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Growth, Economic, Economy

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• It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Country, People, Water

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• I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

  Pratibha Patil

  Happiness, Art, Believe

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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• Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneur- ship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world’s issues will not go unaddressed.

  Klaus Schwab

  Ideas, Creating, Issues

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• If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Business, Growth

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• We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

  Christopher Dodd

  Hands, Growth, Environmental

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• Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

  Jack Kemp

  Mean, People, Growth

  "Man in the News; Theorist With a Heart; Jack French Kemp" by Clifford D. May, www.nytimes.com. December 20, 1988.

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• Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

  Leon Kass

  Innovation, Growth, Important

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• We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face in this area, namely, reducing the gap between high-income earners and people, citizens of our country, who are still living on very modest means indeed. But we cannot, of course, adopt the solution used 80 years ago and simply confiscate the riches of some to redistribute among others. We will use completely different means to resolve this problem, namely, we will ensure good economic growth.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Mean, Years

  Transcript of Press Conference with the Russian and Foreign Media, en.kremlin.ru. February 01, 2007.

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• Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

  Gordon Brown

  Government, Growth, Environmental

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• Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet

  Phil Harding

  Growth, Population, Growing

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• Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

  Robert Reich

  Philosophy, Political, Growth

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• Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Growth, Economic, Enough

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Spring, Winter, Growth

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