David Ogilvy Quotes

These vast lands [Africa, South America, Asia]... need only assistance from us to be civilized.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.

We in Colombia always hope for Venezuela to prosper.

Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved.

There are fewer people living in tents, more people with access to quality health care, more kids who are in school, and for the first time in a long, long time, Haiti is attracting private sector investments.

As a policy-maker in our country, I would much rather we have that investment in our refineries.

We can't have all the concentration of wealth in a few places in this country. We've got to create economic opportunity and new industries in communities that feel left behind.

Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease.

Israel and our vicinity is an area that traditionally has little industry. The area is known for history, it's known for religious stories, it's known a bit for agriculture, but... neither was the Jewish population thinking about export industry, nor the Arab or Palestinian population.

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.

There is a surplus of capital as well as of goods. The financiers no longer know where to place it. Then they go among the happy nations who are leafing in the sun smoking cigarettes and they lay down railroads, erect factories and import the curse of work. And this exportation of French capital ends one fine morning in diplomatic complications

Africa does not need more exhortations. She needs support in strengthening her structures. She needs concrete resources with which to pursue her course of action.

I will begin a new program to get private enterprise into the ghetto and the ghetto into private enterprise. I call it “Black Capitalism.” More black ownership of business and land and homes can be the multiplier of pride that will end our racial strife.

It’s the private sector that produces the jobs, but the private sector needs roads and an educated workforce.

While the overall goal of any society must be to educate all its members, at this stage in human history the greatest need is to educate women and girls. For over twenty years, studies have consistently documented that, of all possible investments, educating women and girls pays the highest overall dividends in terms of social development, the eradication of poverty and the advancement of community.

We continue the policy of not permitting any needy American who can and is willing to work to starve because the Federal Government does not provide work.

We have restored order and established domestic tranquility. We have fed the starving, clothed the naked, and ministered to the sick. We have improved the sanitary condition of the island. We have stimulated industry, introduced public education, taken a full and comprehensive enumeration of the inhabitants

Overall, for 99 years, the planet grew more peaceful and prosperous under Britain’s eye.

Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.

Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-generating expansion of existing businesses.

The Lebanese Diaspora can play a role in helping to build our country's economy.

It was voters in the Rust Belt that cared about their roads being rebuilt, their highways, their bridges. They felt like the world was crumbling. So I started making ads that would show the bridge crumbling.

I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.

America's small businesses and manufacturers are innovators ready to usher in a new wave of growth and opportunity if given access to foreign markets.