Joyce Banda Quotes

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

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

I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.

I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

A generation of entrepreneurs will mop up poverty at a rate that no government ever could.

I will begin a new program to get private enterprise into the ghetto and the ghetto into private enterprise. I call it “Black Capitalism.” More black ownership of business and land and homes can be the multiplier of pride that will end our racial strife.

Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.

A prerequisite to the inclusive prosperity that will increase equality and reduce poverty is growth. This requires an innovative economy in which productive businesses, the state and citizens work together to create wealth and ensure that globalisation works for many more people.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

We need to create jobs across Africa and provide its growing population with a route out of poverty where they are.

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.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

I believe we're the party of small business.

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.