Robert E. Rubin Quotes

Let me assure you that the ANC [African National Congress] is not an enemy of private enterprise …. We are aware that the investor will not invest unless the security of that investment is assured. The rates of economic growth that we seek cannot be achieved without important inflows of foreign capital. We are determined to create the necessary climate that the foreign investor will find attractive.

Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Investing capital in the government creates more bureaucracy, more paperwork and inefficiency.

The best industrial policy is competition.

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

The United States believes that the greatest contribution we can make to world prosperity is the continued advocacy of the magic of the market place.

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.

In this day and age, a big economy – a modern economy – just cannot be managed from the top.

The idea that free trade encourages global economic growth by enhancing productivity is taken as an article of faith by the three major schools of international political economy: liberalism, Marxism, and mercantilism

When you have stability, you have at least an opportunity to enjoy prosperity because investment flows. Business tends to follow the flag. When they find a secure environment, they will invest.

It is not the Federal government that makes prosperity in this country.

Economies that are open to trade grow faster.

The strength of a nation depends in a great measure upon its wealth …

The inland trade is almost perfectly free. This freedom of interior commerce. .. is perhaps one of the principal causes of the prosperity of Great Britain.

Global economic growth significantly increases with the growth of the world’s economic freedom.

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

Government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Is the investment community critical to our economic success? Yes. Free markets, innovation, access to credit, venture capital, and strong labor rights - these have been the underpinnings of our economic vitality, from laying railways to broadband lines.

I think you should consider anything that frees up the market, that creates more jobs.

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

Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.