Thabo Mbeki Quotes

As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad.

American investors [abroad] receive an interest return higher by at least 2 percent on the average than they would receive from similar government or industrial investment within the United States …. It is obvious that they are taking a correspondingly greater risk. A considerable portion of this investment is in areas (as in parts of Latin-America) where political unrest is chronic and where legislation changes rapidly, or in areas in which there is a serious possibility of war or bankruptcy.

At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil.

A serious and explicit purpose of our foreign policy is the encouragement of a hospitable climate for private investment in foreign nations.

Foreign investment ordinarily means the investment abroad of funds that would have been saved anyhow and invested in the home country.… If invested productively within this country, the exported capital would increase the effectiveness of American industry, and so add to our national income--that is, to the amount of goods and services at our command. That loss is the primary national sacrifice entailed in foreign investment.

My ideal - and here, the sky is the limit - is to attract foreign investment via concessions.

There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes it very attractive for us to invest on acquisition overseas.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies.

We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.

One of the roles of a U.S. ambassador - anywhere in the world - is to promote bilateral trade and investment.

We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that.

China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment.

If you want to attract more investment, foreign investment, more talent, more business, I think having some level of certainty that the business environment respects, those who have been your partners for a long time, is important.

We are ready to carefully listen to your proposal to offer the people and capitalists of the United States an opportunity to loan the Mexican Republic the funds necessary to vindicate their rights and govern themselves.

There is every prospect that events arising out of our growing foreign investment will present us in the future with decisions involving war and peace, will bring us, whether we like it or not, to concern ourselves with distant causes.

I was very early on in taking venture capital abroad: to Europe first, then Asia.

Investment in America does not just benefit the United States - it benefits the world.

The history of Iranian foreign investment in the past, their terms were always quite challenging, quite difficult.

Our visits to the United States have brought huge benefits by helping attract foreign direct investment on a scale not previously seen in the north of Ireland.

Policies aimed at attracting more foreign investment into India would naturally be a part of an external stabilisation strategy.

Investment by any foreign company in any element of the U.K.'s Critical National Infrastructure should receive careful scrutiny.