Mauricio Macri Quotes

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

Africa's young population could be a huge economic asset if inequality were addressed.

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

Economic growth can enable development if it is supplemented by public policies that encourage circulation of wealth, especially into crucial areas such as public healthcare and education.

The economic development of the country must come first. Education and the raising of the standards of the people will follow. Afterwards political development may be possible.

I think the Labour government did good and important things, and it's really important not to undervalue them. I see in my constituency how it helped with education and all those things.

Our future is about investing in our own people.

Remember, our focus should remain on development because it is development alone that can transform this nation as well as the lives of its people.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

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

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

My vision is to hire qualified employees that may have not yet had the opportunity to create a better life for themselves, or did have one but might have came down on hard times and need a hand.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Africa will thrive.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.

We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses.

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal.

Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.