Foreign Direct Investment Quotes

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization.

We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.

Haiti is open for business!

Absorbing foreign capital and technology and even allowing foreigners to construct plants in China can only play a complementary role to our effort to develop the productive forces in a socialist society. Of course, this will bring some decadent capitalist influences into China. We are aware of this possibility; it's nothing to be afraid of.

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

Portfolio investment, often called 'hot money' because of its volatile nature, can increase the economy's vulnerability to the vagaries of international finance. Foreign direct investment, on the other hand, is far more stable and driven by domestic fundamentals.

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.

It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America.

Argentina has decided to take its place in the global landscape. We need important companies of the world to finance and construct roads, ports, waterways, energy, trains. We're a huge country that only depends on trucks today. It's impossible.

Policies aimed at attracting more foreign investment into India would naturally be a part of an external stabilisation strategy.

People in emerging markets want to do business with the U.K. I don't see why the U.K. should be penalised for this.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

I am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of Nissan, and the takeover of struggling British companies by foreign companies who turn them around, as in the case of Jaguar Land Rover. I also accept that job losses sometimes have to occur to restore failing companies to health.

You don’t produce development through aid; you produce it through private investment which creates jobs.

While U.S. investments in India are growing, we also need Indian investments in America.

FDI is a responsibility for Indians & an opportunity for the World. My definition of FDI for the people of India is 'First Develop India'.

Historically Turkey hasn't had much success in attracting foreign investment. Slowly that is changing. There's a tradition of arbitrary decisions by government ministers and senior civil servants, which would ruin businesses from one day to the next, and which has tended to deter foreign investment. That's changing, and convergence with E.U. practices is a good thing in that it improves governance.

China continues to welcome foreign investment, and the door will open even further.

At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil.

A serious and explicit purpose of our foreign policy is the encouragement of a hospitable climate for private investment in foreign nations.

I would end the EB-5 program altogether, if we cannot establish that it can be used only to bring development to impoverished places where it otherwise truly would not occur under normal American market forces.

During the 1990s, when India opened up to foreign investment, Japan was so mesmerised by the China opportunity that it chose to yield market space across a wide swathe of industries to South Korean competitors.

Afghanistan is moving to really becoming an export-oriented country.