Bjorn Lomborg Quotes

Some policies may promote growth in ways that will increase poverty; others may promote growth in ways that will reduce it. Some growth strategies may be good for the environment; others may not be.

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

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

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

The best cure for poverty is a booming economy.

More people in more countries, both developing and developed, have experienced larger increases in living standards than in any prior fifty year period.

If the United States does well [economically], then the whole world does well.

Economic development is a great pacifying force.

… authors generally neglect that growth has lifted billions of people out of grinding poverty and that others may remain poor because of the developed world’s environmental concerns …

European economists and populations talk too much about redistribution within the member states and across the member states and are talking too little about how to create value in the future—to fortify our position in order to be successful in the future world.

One has to work on the Polish economy, so that we start getting closer to real prosperity and not prosperity on paper.

What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created.

Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

Build a global economy that will lift up—and not drag down—our people and all the people of the world.

A growth economy is a must.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people

A rising economic tide not only raises all ships but prevents them from bumping into each other.

Prosperity comes slowly.

The state does not possess trade or industry. Its wealth is the wealth of the people and the people’s wealth is not possible without the spread of these sciences amongst them so that they may know the ways for acquiring wealth.

We will focus on the Zambian people as both the end and the means of development

I really want to focus on economic growth and growing the economy.