Alan Mulally Quotes

In the 21st century, we face new and more intense global competition, spanning the ambitious and industrious economies from Latin America to Asia. To meet the challenge, Britain must rediscover and reward the lost virtue of hard work - a tried and tested route to individual success, national prosperity, and a fairer society.

Trade creates jobs.

Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.

If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.

Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

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

We are only 5 percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the world's economy. We have to be able to trade in order to grow.

Despite some struggles of our own, America's business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.

European-style interventions to which the Obama administration is inclined will not make America more competitive in the world-wide economy. Such policies will not increase growth, will not decrease unemployment, and will not increase wages for workers.

I am not a creature of giant business and I think that small- and medium-sized businesses will derive the most benefit from the removal of bureaucratic obstacles to trade.

I believe in free markets. I believe in free trade. I believe in creating the conditions that will allow that to happen. And if we do that, American companies are going to be pretty darn competitive.

American workers and American entrepreneurs can compete with anybody, anywhere if our government will stop making America a cost-prohibitive place to do business.

Physical infrastructure remains important (particularly in developing nations), but concurrently investing in the development of a knowledge-based economy is essential to sustaining healthy economic growth and creating well-paying jobs in a highly competitive, ideas-driven global economy.

Trade plays an important role in empowering our nation, growing its economy, creating domestic jobs, and enhancing American competitiveness in the global chain of commerce.

The United States has the world's largest and most innovative economy, an unmatched rule of law, and a free market that is the envy of the international community. For investors, we are the reserve currency.

We must deregulate, we must provide an investment climate by giving incentives.