Klaus Schwab Quotes

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company.

Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.

If the United States does well [economically], then the whole world does well.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.

The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category.

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

It’s hard for the opposition party to break in when things are going well economically.

Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions.

Savings is the fundamental input for capital investment, and capital investment is the primary ingredient in productivity.

I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.

Relative to other economies in the world, India has a good feel to it.

I am a trained economist.

I studied economics with some teachers from ESADE. It's a really good school here in Spain. They helped me to understand a little about numbers, stats, economics, etc.