Billy Connolly Quotes

Of all the powers on the face of the earth America is the one whose increasing population and immense territory furnish the best prospect for British produce and manufactures.

It cannot be denied that a state of great national prosperity is quite consistent and compatible with legislation in favor of the protection of native industry. That proposition, years ago, was denied; but with the experience we have had of France and the United States of America—the two most flourishing communities probably in existence—it is now incontestable.

In the early colonial period the commerce of Mexico was monopolized by Spain, and this has been the explanation given by most writers for the backwardness of Mexico. They do not seem to know that England monopolized the commerce of her American colonies more strictly than ever Spain did hers. The problem, therefore, is to explain why, as soon as the English colonies were independent, they began sending their ships all over the world, while Mexico could not find any better use for her independence than closing the country to foreign trade by a prohibitive tariff.

I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

I tell foreign companies that come here... 'Don't see Turkey as a country of 770,000 sq km and $800bn gross domestic product. This country has the potential to do so much business in the surrounding countries.'

There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.

The only way in which a European union, embracing Britain but excluding eastern Europe, could become economically healthy would be develop the closest sort of trading relationships either with this hemisphere or with Africa.

lt is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Our interest, … leads us towards America whose commerce would …. furnish an ample outlet for several of our products and would bring us either merchandise of prime necessity ….

The key to our economic prosperity depends on increasing our contacts with Asian traders.

The soil of no country is rich enough to attain a great mass of wealth, merely by the exchange and exportation of its own natural product.

It was, and is, an illusion, however, to think that the English would have treated us any better, and have allowed our economic growth to have proceeded unchecked if we had had no fleet.

In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.

If the United States does well [economically], then the whole world does well.

Financial institutions risk becoming socially useless unless they focus on the real economy and help businesses invest and create jobs.

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

We have weakened our economy in America. We need a strong economy.

The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.

Because Scotland and Northern Ireland want to remain part of the E.U., there is the quite real possibility that Scotland and even Northern Ireland might now choose to go their own way on membership within the E.U. and the 'United Kingdom' would suddenly effectively be only England and Wales.

One has to work on the Polish economy, so that we start getting closer to real prosperity and not prosperity on paper.

Future prosperity will be built on private sector growth.

Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.

When people have jobs in a thriving economy, it solves a lot of problems.

One of the most important aspects that feed a thriving economy is successful businesses, so the more startups that take off, the better the financial picture is for everyone.