Rajeev Suri Quotes

As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

Ultimately, we have to decide, with the Legislature: Are we willing to take some bold steps to make us even more competitive in the future, competing in a global economy? I think Nebraskans are willing to listen to that discussion. They want an opportunity for their kids and grandkids to live here.

That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

We should widen our economic base and encourage businesses to move up the value chain and increase job diversity.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.

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.

We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

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

We believe that business is the engine that drives the car. You've got to build your business base. That means creating more jobs, better paying jobs - that's how you raise your standard of living. That's how you raise your quality of life. That's what funds all the other services people want from government.

We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.

The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.

Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.

Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.

An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by most of the people running for office, but it's not in fact disputed.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.