Kofi Annan Quotes

We're trying to find a tourism model that allows communities to thrive while business prospers.

Where civil society is welcomed, communities are more safe, more secure, and more prosperous.

Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity.

The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.

When you have stability, you have at least an opportunity to enjoy prosperity because investment flows. Business tends to follow the flag. When they find a secure environment, they will invest.

The commerce of the United States is essential, if not to their existence, at least to their comfort, their growth, prosperity, and happiness. The genius, character, and habits of the people are highly commercial. Their cities have been formed and exist upon commerce. Our agriculture, fisheries, arts, and manufactures are connected with and depend upon it. In short, commerce has made this country what it is, and it can not be destroyed or neglected without involving the people in poverty and distress.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

A community is business, education, and housing. Without those, the community suffers.

The middle class is the engine of this economy.

The precondition of all happiness…and particularly of economic and commercial development is tranquility, security and order beyond the reach of any violation.

The key to economic development is less in government aid, but in having a climate that will attract private capital….Free market development is the key to economic prosperity in the world.

Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.

Economic development is a great pacifying force.

I remain dedicated to building an economy that works for every American and every community. I remain committed to ensuring our security at home while also ensuring we lead the world in improving security around the globe.

I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.

As someone who started a small business from scratch, I know how important it is for families and for communities to have strong job creation.

Stabilizing economies and reducing political and civil strife are means to development and, as such, are part of the approach for promoting healthy populations.

Eventually, we have to make a good business environment in this country.

Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.