Yoshihide Suga Quotes

Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.

When you have stability, you have at least an opportunity to enjoy prosperity because investment flows. Business tends to follow the flag. When they find a secure environment, they will invest.

In a global marketplace with its increased insecurities and - indeed often - volatility and instability, national economic stability is at a premium, the precondition for all we can achieve, and no nation can secure the high levels of sustainable investment it needs without both monetary and fiscal stability together.

Public confidence in, and support for, the euro - and, indeed, the European Union - will ultimately be determined by how well we deliver on growth and jobs rather than on institutional wrangling and complex legal or technical negotiations.

Growth means creating the right conditions for the private sector - farmers and firms - to invest and do business.

Foreign and domestic investors will come only when they know that you have enough power.

Capital goes where it feels comfortable and warm, and if it's cold, it runs to a country which gives it better weather.

No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant.

In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.

Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.

We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.

It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

If we are to maintain our position as a global economic leader, we've got to end the govern-by-crisis mentality that sets us back instead of moving us forward.

Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.

Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.