Lawrence Summers Quotes

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

Aid should shift to investment. This will help countries stand on their own.

If we decide, we can change the pitiable condition of Indian economy. We have to take up the responsibility and show commitment.

Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

Serbia is open for business.

I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.

There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

I don't think money itself has any causal relationship to nominal GNP. The dominating causal force is interest rates.

Our infrastructure is just barely adequate to support our current level of economic activity, and our current rate of infrastructure improvement and investment falls vastly short of tomorrow's needs.

Credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Our economy, in order to grow, needs people to spend.

Except for a few oil-rich countries, no developing country has successfully modernized without slowing population growth.

Without development there is no profit, without profit no development.

The economic development of the country must come first. Education and the raising of the standards of the people will follow. Afterwards political development may be possible.

European economists and populations talk too much about redistribution within the member states and across the member states and are talking too little about how to create value in the future—to fortify our position in order to be successful in the future world.

When the times were good, many leaders neglected to keep pushing reforms and to invest profits wisely. As a consequence, their nations are now struggling to sustain growth.

Given my earlier experience as the longest served CM of the erstwhile undivided A.P., I focused on choosing right people in the right place with clear priorities in the departments that were vital to attract large-scale investments into the state.

We want trade agreements that aid development and increase prosperity, growth and productivity at home and in our trade partner countries.

It's thriving, responsibly regulated business that does the research and development to provide the tools as well as the means to a better country.

We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece.

Fortunately poorer countries, such as China, are showing leadership and beginning to demonstrate to the world how to invest in low-carbon growth.