Economic growth Quotes

“When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.”

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

“The reason it's on the rise is because probably the boom times are getting even more boomer.”

“The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.”

“Wikipedia: Economic growth”

“If we could export more finished products instead of raw materials, we could become a middle-income country.”

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

“A year ago this time, the third quarter figure for 2012... we were talking about negative growth of more than 3%.”

“The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.”

“It is the welfare state that has made capitalism, with all its attendant benefits of economic growth, politically feasible.”

“The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.”

“Today we have economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive. What we need are economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow.”

“The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.”

“I want to make it clear, if there is ever a conflict (between environmental quality and economic growth), I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.”

“Populists rarely mention these positive consequences, nor can they cogently explain how they would have sustained American economic growth and expansion of our political power without them.”

“We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.”

“Our combined endeavour should be to ensure that the rate of economic growth is sustained and it is socially inclusive; We must also ensure that every region of the country participates in and benefits from the process of economic growth.”

“The laws of economics are subject to the laws of physics. The physical processes that govern this planet and the continued life upon it place as stringent an upper limit on economic growth as the speed of light does on our knowledge of the universe.”

“Conservation biologists agree that humanity is on the verge of causing a mass extinction and that its primary driver is our immense and rapidly expanding global economy.”

“This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit. The gap between the governors and the governed is now a gaping chasm.”