Dalai Lama Quotes

Tibet is sparsely populated. The two million Tibetans are not enough to handle the task of developing such a huge region. There is no harm in sending Han into Tibet to help.... The key issues are what is best for Tibetans and how can Tibet develop at a fast pace, and move ahead …

We have worked nearly 30 years, but the lives of the Tibetans have not improved.

Development is the foundation of resolving Tibet’s problem.

Africa is the future.

We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.

India has political freedom but it does not have economic freedom.

If Pakistan is to play its proper role in the world to which its size, manpower and resources entitle it; it must develop industrial potential side by side with its agriculture and give its economy an industrial bias. By industrializing our State, we shall decrease our dependence on the outside world for necessities of life; we will give more employment to our people and will also increase the resources of the State.

No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

A growth economy is a must.

We have to educate our way to a better economy.

Prosperity comes slowly.

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

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

The prosperity of a people depends upon such facts as the natural wealth of the country in which they live, their social discipline and industrial character, the result of generations, of centuries, it may be, of tradition.

In the early colonial period the commerce of Mexico was monopolized by Spain, and this has been the explanation given by most writers for the backwardness of Mexico. They do not seem to know that England monopolized the commerce of her American colonies more strictly than ever Spain did hers. The problem, therefore, is to explain why, as soon as the English colonies were independent, they began sending their ships all over the world, while Mexico could not find any better use for her independence than closing the country to foreign trade by a prohibitive tariff.

Go ask Virginia— go ask even noble Maryland ... to show you her people, canals, railroads, universities, schools, charities, commerce cities, and cultivated areas.

Canadians need a plan for jobs and growth.

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

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

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

Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.

I dream of India becoming a great economic superpower.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.