Jeffrey Sachs Quotes

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

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

Countries with higher incomes on average achieve better human development. I do not believe that growth alone will 'cure' poverty. But I do believe that growth is necessary.

Ending extreme poverty is possible.

The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

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

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.