Wayne Swan Quotes

If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.

No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.

The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.

Education is economic development.

You cannot be pro business unless you are pro education.

Education equals economic growth.

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.

I know in my state, I am leading innovation and we need to diversify the economy. But you can't have innovation unless you have education.

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.

A nation’s success in the global economy is not determined by the quantity of its natural resources, but by the quality of its human resources.

If you invest in education and training of our young people, what you do is you increase the future economic capacity of the nation.

Educating our children and giving them the skills they need to compete in a global economy is a smart investment in our country's future.

A skilled, well-educated workforce will attract more companies and jobs to our state.

While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower.

If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce.

Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.

If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

In today's world, learning has become the key to economic prosperity, social cohesion and personal fulfillment. We can no longer afford to educate the few to think, and the many to do.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.

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.