John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

You cannot have prosperity without peace. Without peace, China cannot continue to develop itself.

More people in more countries, both developing and developed, have experienced larger increases in living standards than in any prior fifty year period.

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

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

Young people in the third world can participate in global security if they also can participate in global prosperity.

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason.

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

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

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

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.

If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

There is an economic revolution taking place throughout Latin America and we must be a part of it.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education, then upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Africa has no time to lose. The global economy is fast leaving our continent behind.

Build a global economy that will lift up—and not drag down—our people and all the people of the world.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

Debt relief without the opening of markets will not relieve third world countries from their poverty.

Global economic growth significantly increases with the growth of the world’s economic freedom.