Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.

At the basis of all prosperity, for that as well as for every other part of the country, lies the improvement of the intellectual and moral condition of the people.

America…could within twenty years bring us to a degree of development which Turks, left to themselves, would not be able to achieve in a century. It would make Turkey prosperous, rich and happy and turn Turks into a strong and civilized nation.

My final aim is to bring Iran, within twenty years, to the same level of civilization and progress as will be enjoyed by the most highly developed countries. During the last ten years the degree of our backwardness has been halved, but it is this remaining backwardness which will be the most difficult to combat.

Growth and prosperity. These are the blocks with which we must build our welfare society.

Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and you can't create prosperity without stability.

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

Today, the future of Venezuela won and, as we said, we repeat to everyone: there is a path, there is a path for progress, for the future, to make Venezuela a greater country.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

Prosperity in human society is misunderstood. The difference between a rich and poor society is the number of problems that society solves for its citizens. That means technological innovation is the source of all prosperity, but with every tech innovation, you also get disruption - ultimately, social and civic disruption.