John Key Quotes

An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.

Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

Creating efficiencies in private markets is a huge win for the economy.

The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.

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.

The best and most sustainable love story for markets is one based on a healthy and dynamic real economy that creates jobs and opportunities for many more people.

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers.

We have the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world.

Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they're most productive, and thereby enabled the economy to grow faster.

Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.

lt is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

The greater security of property is one of the main conditions and causes of greater production.

Savings is the fundamental input for capital investment, and capital investment is the primary ingredient in productivity.

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

As a steward of the U.S.economy and financial systems, the Treasury has helped lay the groundwork for the American economy to become a model of strength, flexibility, dynamism, resiliency. This is a system that generates growth, creates jobs and wealth, rewards initiative, and fosters innovation.

Money is not capital in most of the developing countries. It's just cash. Because it lacks the institutional, organizational, managerial forms to turn it into capital.

The better side of Wall Street is when it is acting as an efficient mechanism of capital formation and capital flow, which helps businesses invest.

After securing security, we can be confident that our achievements will be safeguarded and also have the capacity to construct infrastructure such as regional railways, airports, and highways that will facilitate trade and help us to integrate faster.

The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.

I'm not worried they're all about the investments we make. I mean, listen, this country - we've got $46,000 or $47,000 of GDP per capita. Now, we've done pretty darn well. We'll do better in the future.

We all have to think about the emerging markets.

Our country has the potential not just to be the giant of Africa but a major economic giant in the world.

I would like to pass into history as the man of the economic miracle of Angola... That's my mission.