Henry Paulson Quotes

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.

If you think about it: a big bank in any country, what is it? Really, as an investment, it's a warrant on economy.

Whenever global economy is reasonably doing well, the investment flows.

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.

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

Interest rates are used to achieve overall economic stability.

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

Mexico has very solid financial institutions, with good levels of capitalism, but they’re not lending much.

Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other.

My focus is on the financial sector, on getting credit going, getting lending flowing. I can't imagine anything that would have a bigger stimulative impact.

The financial sector is vital to the economy. A well-functioning financial sector promotes job creation, innovation, and inclusive economic growth.

There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can be averted. Furthermore, it is only by reviving American economic growth that the West's global predominance can be sustained, and peace and freedom kept secure around the world.

The best way that a central bank can support growth on a durable basis is to ensure inflation is low, stable - there is financial stability - and that is the role that the central bank plays.

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

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.

Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

I will continue to stay very focused on the economy.