Manmohan Singh Quotes

Israel is a producer of growth.

I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.

The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to give a bold lead for our guidance and a brilliant record of historical achievements and traditions…

We’re the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the culture and warmth of people.

You will see India as a country of opportunities, unmatched across the world. India can be a role model of growth and cohesiveness for the rest of the world.

People are an asset, not a liability. The United States is the most immigrant-friendly nation in the world and the richest country in the world. This is not a coincidence. Those voices that would make us less immigrant-friendly would make us less successful, less prosperous and certainly less American.

Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.

I believe the future of our country can be really great.

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'

I think America has a brilliant future.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.

We are living in a Golden Age, the most gilded Golden Age of human history—not only of past history, but of future history.

Industrial America always wanted to have America characterized by strong institutions.

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

The wealth of a country is in its working people.

The inland trade is almost perfectly free. This freedom of interior commerce. .. is perhaps one of the principal causes of the prosperity of Great Britain.

Every country has her own way of development.

Economic prosperity is a great engine for change.

In any country, … only a small portion of the income earned in any year is a result of individual work effort, ingenuity and risk-taking. The rest is explained by the natural resources with which that country is endowed, the physical infrastructure, the collective know-how of fellow citizens, the quality of public and private institutions, and the degree of trust that greases the wheels of commerce, politics and everyday life.

American and world history show that if you want minimal government, you can have it—but only if you want almost everyone in your society also to be a dirt-poor, subsistence farmer. If you want a prosperous, growing modern economy, you need high specialization and a huge, complex, interdependent network of individuals, businesses, research centers and education. And only government has the authority or money to regulate that network and to regularly pump in the targeted funds needed to sustain and grow it.

Entrepreneurship made America great.

Commerce is a core component of pretty much any successful society.