Yoweri Museveni Quotes

The best industrial policy is competition.

Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

Establishment of a market economy is seen as mostly involving destruction.

In this day and age, a big economy – a modern economy – just cannot be managed from the top.

A Socialist Government cannot carry on a capitalist system better than the capitalists. The men bred by a capitalist system are men of affairs who understand their business. They are not apprentices.

Some communist countries think that free enterprise will save them the same way that they thought communism would save them.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with — and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

The best thing that governments can do is get out of business. When governments interfere less, managers can do their jobs better.

I believe that we need to take government out of business, and then we need to take business and put business back into government because government has no place in our businesses

So long as we maintain a substantial private sector, therefore socialists must logically applaud the accumulation of private profit.

Through argument and example, we must show that Corbyn's hard left socialism will destroy business - the engine at the heart of our economy.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.

In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?

I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.