Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

The land in Ireland is infinitely more peopled than anywhere else; and to give full effect to the natural resources of the country, a great part of the population should be swept from the soil.

We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

Africa will thrive.

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.

The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.

For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.