Manmohan Singh Quotes

Bend everything toward improving the standard of living of the people.

The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

My development parameter is very simple. It is about how the poorest of the poor can benefit from development.

We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human well-being and assured social justice.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.

Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.

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.

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

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.

China is a developing country and we regard subsistence as the fundamental human right.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

Growth and prosperity. These are the blocks with which we must build our welfare society.

Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to the marketplace and lead productive lives. U.S. foreign assistance opens new markets to U.S. goods and services and creates new trading partners and allies.

No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.

We believe that by removing a crippling debt burden we'll help millions of Africans improve their lives and grow their economies.

Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.