Roy Bennett Quotes

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

SingTel has made substantial investments in markets with high growth potential in South Asia, such as India and Bangladesh.

... a better government: more complete security of property; moderate taxes; a more permanent ... tenure of land ... the introduction of foreign arts ... and the introduction of foreign capital, which renders the increase of production no longer exclusively on the thrift or providence of the inhabitants themselves.

Business follows the flag …. Where there is stability and security, there is likely to be investment.

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.

The prime element of the value of property is the knowledge that its peaceful use will be defended by government.

The insecurity of property in Ireland, whether real or supposed … prevents the English or Scotch capitalist from transmitting materials to be manufactured in Ireland.

I would say as emphatically as I can that private enterprise—local and foreign—must respond if the Alliance [for Progress] is to succeed .... [it] must respond by building the factories, the marketing and the service companies which are the manifestations of mature, developed economies. If the private sector fails, then our own public aid programs will have little effect.

The real wealth of a nation resides in its farms and factories and the people who man them.

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

Businessmen will not readily venture where governmental protection is doubtful. If they incur large risks they demand large profits, and if you promise these, you cannot easily advance or strengthen the nation you wish to develop or aid.

Let me assure you that the ANC [African National Congress] is not an enemy of private enterprise …. We are aware that the investor will not invest unless the security of that investment is assured. The rates of economic growth that we seek cannot be achieved without important inflows of foreign capital. We are determined to create the necessary climate that the foreign investor will find attractive.

Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.

We need to grow the private sector in every corner of New Mexico.

In my International Development Scheme, I propose that the profits of this industrial development should go first to pay the interest and principal of foreign capital invested in it; second to give high wages to labor; and third to improve or extend the machinery of production.

The thing that the Nigerian government will do is to secure the environment. If the environment is not secured, then unfortunately, the investments wouldn't be coming in.

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.

A literate, skilled workforce is essential for low-income countries to attract investment and fill jobs with local rather than imported labour.

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

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

Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.

Afghanistan has the capacity to become an industrialized country because of its mining and agriculture sectors. We can also create jobs for educated men and women by investing in information technology.

We had something in the United States called, which is called CFIUS, which is the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. My husband used to be one of the lawyers on that committee.