Julia Gillard Quotes

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

This Government intends no injury to honest business. The processes we follow in seeking social justice do not, in adding to general prosperity, take from one and give to another. In this modern world, the spreading out of opportunity ought not to consist of robbing Peter to pay Paul. In other words, we are concerned with more than mere subtraction and addition. We are concerned with multiplication also -- multiplication of wealth through cooperative action, wealth in which all can share.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.

We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.

Economic cooperation makes the American people and others around the world more prosperous and secure.

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

I want to create economic opportunity at home and abroad. I don't want just one or the other. I want both.

We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some.

Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.

People should give up the old concepts of 'you lose. I win', or zero-sum game, and establish a new concept of peaceful development and win-win cooperation. If China develops well, it will benefit the whole world and benefit the United States. If the United States develops well, it will also benefit the world and China.

Don't assume that the interests of employer and employee are necessarily hostile—that what is good for one is necessarily bad for the other. The opposite is more apt to be the case. While they have different interests, they are likely to prosper or suffer together.

When you lower trade barriers and level the playing field, you create a mutual pool of wealth.

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

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

Solidarity and competitiveness are the two sides of a European coin.

We understand that America's prosperity is bound up with the prosperity of other nations, including emerging market nations.

No man can become rich without himself enriching others

I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy the wealth of the whole nation together. I think this will be accomplished because this is the theme of the revolutionary government's program.

Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.

We have to focus on how do we ensure the economy works for everybody, and not just a few.