Andrew Natsios Quotes

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

A generation of entrepreneurs will mop up poverty at a rate that no government ever could.

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

I’m not in the business of creating jobs.

The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.

Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

I would say as emphatically as I can that private enterprise—local and foreign—must respond if the Alliance [for Progress] is to succeed .... [it] must respond by building the factories, the marketing and the service companies which are the manifestations of mature, developed economies. If the private sector fails, then our own public aid programs will have little effect.

Canada is open for business.

Maine is competing with the rest of the country for jobs and for economic development and we're going to be on the front edge of that competition. And technology is one of the ways to do it.

The private sector is recognized as the creator of social wealth.

Europe needs to make its first, second and third economic priorities economic development.

Trade creates jobs.

Canadians need a plan for jobs and growth.

Infrastructure investments lead to jobs. And quality of life starts with a good job.

Without investment, you cannot have jobs.

We have to diversify our economy. We have to create jobs. We have to focus on education, more training programmes.

I'm a businessman. I build things, create jobs - jobs that allow people to pay their mortgage, put food on the table, put their kids through college.

Britain's generosity in the world has allowed us to help the poorest countries to get on the road to industrialisation through economic development and private sector investment in the world's most difficult frontier markets, where jobs and economic opportunities are desperately needed.

We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.

India's growth drivers are actually two growth drivers. One is consumption, which arises out of our demographic advantage. And the other is the investments. Because we need a lot of investment in the country.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.