Stef Wertheimer Quotes

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five million people. Nigeria has 150 million people. I cannot say that all the money earned from oil since 1958, when the first drop of oil was exported from this country to date, that the money has been effectively used.

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.

I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.

China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

We want to help countries ultimately to become self-sustaining. That has to come through economic development.

The federal government's role is to establish a process whereby industry can pitch a project, and Canadians can be reassured that this project is worth the risk. That's at the heart of governments granting permits and communities granting permission. People understand we do need economic growth. We do need natural resource projects.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

We believe that business is the engine that drives the car. You've got to build your business base. That means creating more jobs, better paying jobs - that's how you raise your standard of living. That's how you raise your quality of life. That's what funds all the other services people want from government.

Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

The future of Africa is in innovative engineering.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

We need to use all the resources at our disposal in order to prosper. We need more employment, and we need employment to be spread more fairly across society.

I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.

The state does not possess trade or industry. Its wealth is the wealth of the people and the people’s wealth is not possible without the spread of these sciences amongst them so that they may know the ways for acquiring wealth.

Control of oil revenue has helped autocrats stay in power.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.

I have nothing against wealth; I believe that government has a role to play in creating it by supporting pro-growth policies. However, success comes with responsibility.

We need young Frenchmen who want to become billionaires.