Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the minds and opinions of the age.

... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.

As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

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.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

Since entering the new century, China and Africa have seized the historic opportunities presented by the deepening of globalization, worked together and helped each other to achieve a win-win outcome.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of peoples, is that it demands of its participants only that they observe a relatively few basic principles, among them honesty, the sanctity of contracts, and respect for private property.

I will be greatly pleased if the venture capitalists you have referred to would come here and invest part of their wealth in industrial enterprise, extending by that means the bonds of fraternity between the two republics and linking their identities by means of the same democratic institutions.

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.

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

... no one possesses the less because everyone possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me receives it without lessening me, as he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening me.

A lot of the ideas for solving many of our problems are already in place, but ideas don’t travel.

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.

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.

When the United States comes with resources and ideas, people pay attention.

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

We will pursue a relationship of friendship and co-operation with the United States, always rooted in mutual respect and in the defence of our fellow Mexicans who live and work honourably in that country.

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

Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

Whichever country we are talking to, we are concerned with economic cooperation, how to deepen our mutual dependence, how to find new areas of win-win.