Viktor Orban Quotes

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.

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

As a nation, America is at its best when we are thinking and making things and exporting to the world.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

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

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.

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

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

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

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

When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.

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.

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.

Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.

No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone else. But once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brain - they innovate, creating more for everyone else.

Labor is the only means of creating wealth.

Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.

You can invest as much as you want in infrastructure and education. But in the end people have to be allowed to make a profit from their work.

Regardless of how it is funded, consumption does not increase productivity; investment and innovation do.