Mahathir Mohamad Quotes

While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower.

If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

No nation owes more to the steel wheel on the steel rail though it is not always clear whether railways were built to unite Canada, or Canada was created to justify the rail building.

Instead of condemning Israel, the underdeveloped countries should take it as an example of how to build an advanced, prosperous nation.

Not only the wealth; but the independence and security of a Country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufactures.

The War of 1812 has given new direction to wealth and industry in the United States, and manufacturers grew up as if by magic.

We have no longer States that are necessarily only planting States. None are excluded from achieving that diversification of pursuits among the people which brings wealth and contentment.

It is impossible for any power to become eminent in commerce, without excelling in manufactures and navigation. America is capable of supporting and increasing both …

Without a consumer society there was no need for an industrial revolution.

Over the last three decades, Mexico has made the transition from a commodity and agricultural-based economy to one dominated by manufacturing and services.

In transforming a backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

China is still a developing country with a myriad of tasks and challenges.

We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men.

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

Steam and the telegraph and other machinery have required capital greater than any individual can furnish.

The manufacturing base of the country is the hope of the country.

Modernization is found in markets.