Narendra Modi Quotes

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

As nations continue to develop they will require more, not less, total energy; their industrialization and rapidly growing populations will depend on it.

The War of 1812 has given new direction to wealth and industry in the United States, and manufacturers grew up as if by magic.

Every new mine, furnace, and factory is an extension of the productive capacity of the State more real and valuable than added territory.

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

Without a consumer society there was no need for an industrial revolution.

We are going to see with our own eyes electricity made so cheap that it would become a standard article for use, not only for manufacturing but for every home…. I know that this empty desert country is going to be filled with men, women and children, making an honest livelihood…

In my International Development Scheme, I propose that the profits of this industrial development should go first to pay the interest and principal of foreign capital invested in it; second to give high wages to labor; and third to improve or extend the machinery of production.

Special Category Status (SCS) is absolutely necessary for the development of the State. Without SCS, even if we take 60 years, we won't be able to develop like Hyderabad. But with SCS, development can be fast-tracked.

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.

I invite you all to participate in Make in India.

it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.

East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

We want to invite the world to Make in India, make India as the base for manufacturing electronic goods.

We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

During my stay in Philadelphia, I could not help be surprised at the great increase in that City in Buildings, Mechanicks, and Manufactures…. The People of Pennsylvania lay their plans with more Temper and Judgment and pursue with more patience and Steadfastness…. They are silently stealing in Mechanicks and Manufactures; and if they go on as they have hitherto done, they will probably in a few years Supply themselves with many of the necessary articles which they now import from Great Britain.

Over the last three decades, Mexico has made the transition from a commodity and agricultural-based economy to one dominated by manufacturing and services.

… of the world’s nearly 200 economies, only 35 have reached developed status and stayed there. The rest are still emerging, and many have been emerging forever.

In transforming a backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

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

We should make innovations in coal-mining and metallurgical industries in particular so as to revitalize the overall economy of the country.

We have built cities, developed industry and cultivated agriculture - we have transformed the State of Israel into an example and symbol for many other countries in the world.

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.