Anne M. Mulcahy Quotes

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

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

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.

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

I want to create economic opportunity at home and abroad. I don't want just one or the other. I want both.

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.

The millionaires and billionaires who chose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs to be spread widely.

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.

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

We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.

A prerequisite to the inclusive prosperity that will increase equality and reduce poverty is growth. This requires an innovative economy in which productive businesses, the state and citizens work together to create wealth and ensure that globalisation works for many more people.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity.

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

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

A generation of entrepreneurs will mop up poverty at a rate that no government ever could.

Economic development is a great pacifying force.

God wants us to show compassion and understanding toward the unemployed or the poor not because they are poor, but because poor people, with help from those who are already successful, can become rich. And when the poor become rich, all will benefit, because in our modern economy new unemployment is the first sign of economic growth.

Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.