Shane Douglas Quotes

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

I want to rebuild America.

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.

Haiti is open for business!

We have to help young people, because at the end of the day, we won't have an economy if we don't have them.

Serbia is open for business.

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

... a better government: more complete security of property; moderate taxes; a more permanent ... tenure of land ... the introduction of foreign arts ... and the introduction of foreign capital, which renders the increase of production no longer exclusively on the thrift or providence of the inhabitants themselves.

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

The single greatest investment we can make in the economy is to make sure that each person has a good education.

The bottom line of a successful economic policy is jobs.

In today’s world, a government that controls a vast tract of territory may be less relevant than one that supports education and embraces a regulatory framework promoting innovation and investment.

… compared to circumstances where the birth rate remains high—a decline in fertility from high to low levels allows a population to save and invest more, both in terms of human capital (ie education and training) and in terms of physical capital (eg roads, factories, machinery.)

We have neglected industry and commerce just as we have neglected every other opportunity of progress.

Energy is one of the worst bottlenecks in the development of industry and the national economy

Ideas are what power our economy.

… growth is necessary to meet the requirements of social and national progress

… governments must serve capitalism by establishing and maintain a framework which enables capitalism to develop. It can induce it to grow, but cannot command it to do so.

Europe needs to make its first, second and third economic priorities economic development.

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.

Economic growth is based partly on reality and partly on perception.