Thabo Mbeki Quotes

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

Ideas are what power our economy.

It is enlightened selfishness to build up the ability of other nations to a higher standard of living. We thus produce wider markets for ourselves as well as the rest of the world

The United States believes that the greatest contribution we can make to world prosperity is the continued advocacy of the magic of the market place.

China's growth and stability is a vital issue for all nations.

There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.

We should make innovations in coal-mining and metallurgical industries in particular so as to revitalize the overall economy of the country.

One of our targets as a country is to now work very closely with the Commonwealth countries - they could become a very big market for us.

America has a unique combination of talent, a vibrant business environment, and access to global markets, which has enabled U.S. companies like Intel to foster economic growth and innovation.

I believe and still believe that the Chinese government puts great weight on the experience of the Bank in terms of development.

I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.

Without U.S. independence, North America would have remained a rural, non-industrial breadbasket. Blessed as it was with natural resources, agrarian North America would have supplied cotton and beef and lumber to industrial Britain. America would thus be more like Australia - a nice enough place to live, but no kind of world power.

I think we have to pick up some sectors where we can make India the global hub in the entire value chain, and the most important sector to pick up should be electronics.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Latecomers to industrial development have had to catch up by finding ways of closing the gap.

Western capitalism is a looting mechanism. It loots labor. It loots the environment, and with the transpacific and transatlantic 'partnerships,' it will loot the sovereign law of countries.

Using cheap and efficient energy makes every other American industry more productive, and thus makes American employers far more competitive in global markets. Productivity creates higher paying jobs in America; it doesn't destroy them.

Opening markets abroad through trade agreements is especially important for American small businesses and manufacturers to enhance growth and job creation.

When the forces of liberalism and capitalism converge, change happens.

Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade.

I believe in removing barriers in international trade. Part of the reason is that this creates huge markets for all of our products.

In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.

My interest in economics just basically comes because I think I'm a curious person, and I'm interested in how the world works.

Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to thrive in world markets, they tend to increase their productivity even more.

Americans were happy to buy vast quantities of relatively inexpensive Chinese manufactured goods, demand for which provided jobs for the tens of millions of Chinese who moved from poor agricultural areas to new or rapidly expanding cities.