Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.

Brazil must increase the value of its human capital by investing in knowledge and technology.

If Russia is to be a great power, it will be, not because of its nuclear potential, faith in God or its president, or Western investment, but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in knowledge and science and the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.

We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

The strength of a nation is its knowledge.

A nation’s success in the global economy is not determined by the quantity of its natural resources, but by the quality of its human resources.

The country that out educates us today will out compete us tomorrow.

The most important resource of counties of the future will be the number of math trained brains.

If we're going to compete in this century, we have to compete on the basis of how smart we are.

Physical infrastructure remains important (particularly in developing nations), but concurrently investing in the development of a knowledge-based economy is essential to sustaining healthy economic growth and creating well-paying jobs in a highly competitive, ideas-driven global economy.

Hungary has no raw materials and no major energy sources; we have some agricultural background. So what we produce here in Hungary is the result of our labor and minds, and then we have to sell it to the world. If we are not able to do that, if we are not innovative enough, if we are not modern and open enough, we can't do that.

Intellectual capital drives financial capital and growth.

By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation.

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.