Julia Gillard Quotes

Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.

When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.

Education equals economic growth.

Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.

The future of Norway isn't about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state, and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

Brazil must increase the value of its human capital by investing in knowledge and technology.

Education is economic development.

Regardless of how it is funded, consumption does not increase productivity; investment and innovation do.

Australia's economic future depends upon getting smarter. This means investing in the skills and knowledge of our workforce.

Educating our children and giving them the skills they need to compete in a global economy is a smart investment in our country's future.

Hungary has no raw materials and no major energy sources; we have some agricultural background. So what we produce here in Hungary is the result of our labor and minds, and then we have to sell it to the world. If we are not able to do that, if we are not innovative enough, if we are not modern and open enough, we can't do that.

The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.

Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.