Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

Bend everything toward improving the standard of living of the people.

People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

The major challenge facing us is to elevate our national life to the highest level of civilization and prosperity.

The normal metric of measuring progress has actually been the rate of growth, OK? It's not a wrong metric, but it's not a full metric.

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.

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

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.

The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.

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

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke. There may be times when things are dark and cloudy in America .... but remember that the growth of this vast country will take care of all.

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

States and nations do not build wealth by storing cash in a bank vault. They build wealth by expanding human solutions to human problems in order that more and more of her people — living and yet to be born — are able to enjoy a higher quality of life.

We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.

Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.

When I was growing up, government was the agent of change: it was a developing country. What was important was to make a difference.

Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.

Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

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