Ibn Khaldun Quotes

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

As capital is thus the most essential element in setting industry in motion, so it is by the amount of it, that the productiveness of that industry is chiefly determined.

Labor alone creates and pays the profits of capital.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

Such forms of wealth as gold, silver, precious stones are only minerals and products having an exchange value. It is social effort, the search for profit and the use of tools that cause the increase or decrease of the quantity of precious metals in circulation and hence, the real wealth of a King

Trade will increase trade, and money will beget money, and the trading world shall need no more to want work for their hands, but will rather want hands for their work

Brazil was a capitalist society without capital.

It’s the private sector that produces the jobs, but the private sector needs roads and an educated workforce.

Without development there is no profit, without profit no development.

… growth is necessary to meet the requirements of social and national progress

The United States believes that the greatest contribution we can make to world prosperity is the continued advocacy of the magic of the market place.

States and nations do not build wealth by storing cash in a bank vault. They build wealth by expanding human solutions to human problems in order that more and more of her people — living and yet to be born — are able to enjoy a higher quality of life.

There's money in the old stuff, but there's more wealth created in the new growth areas.

We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn.

India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

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.

My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth.

By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.

Haiti is open for business!