Walter Wriston Quotes

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

If you want to attract more investment, foreign investment, more talent, more business, I think having some level of certainty that the business environment respects, those who have been your partners for a long time, is important.

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

Capital goes where it feels comfortable and warm, and if it's cold, it runs to a country which gives it better weather.

A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.

Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.

The attitude of the business community towards investment in Austria and Germany has always been positive, as both the countries have earned their reputation as countries with a consistent economic environment.

An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

Let me assure you that the ANC [African National Congress] is not an enemy of private enterprise …. We are aware that the investor will not invest unless the security of that investment is assured. The rates of economic growth that we seek cannot be achieved without important inflows of foreign capital. We are determined to create the necessary climate that the foreign investor will find attractive.

When people come and invest in India, they invest on a certain premise, and the fact that the very premise can change worries them a lot.

We have enacted many economic reforms but also others that have an impact on the overall investment climate. For instance, I launched a very important constitutional reform on judicial certainty that completely restarted the whole of the courts system in Ukraine.

Developing countries have much to gain from capital mobility: the ability to tap external sources of finance, greater financial efficiency from deeper stock and bond markets, and technology transfer and know-how from foreign direct investment.

If a private investor is raising his hand and saying, 'I don't have the conditions with which to work,' then the government has the responsibility to create those conditions.

The investment climate in Gujarat under Modi has been very supportive of business interests; but it was the same under the Congress governments that came before him.

Firms gain comparative advantage from how good their people are. Retaining and attracting talent is a key point of competitive advantage in the global economy. We are seeing that play out, and there are implications for Australia, too. The idea that companies now compete on who can pay their workers the lowest - that's all changing.

I think the United States is the greatest country in the world to invest in.

Capital will follow where great talents go.

There are many people abroad who want to help, who want to invest. We will give them the red-carpet treatment. We want them to realize that this is a land of opportunity. It always has been so, but we never allowed foreign investment to come into this country.

When I go around, despite the tax cut, the thing - the things that business as in people like the most is the fact that I'm cutting regulation.

Historically Turkey hasn't had much success in attracting foreign investment. Slowly that is changing. There's a tradition of arbitrary decisions by government ministers and senior civil servants, which would ruin businesses from one day to the next, and which has tended to deter foreign investment. That's changing, and convergence with E.U. practices is a good thing in that it improves governance.