Alex Steffen Quotes

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy.

The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.

Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.

A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it demands.

Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.

For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.

It’s the private sector that produces the jobs, but the private sector needs roads and an educated workforce.

Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits.

I see opportunities in all my businesses. And the reason is simple. We thrive on countries that are urbanizing.

Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.

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.

Haiti is open for business!

An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by most of the people running for office, but it's not in fact disputed.

I want to make Seoul more attractive. I want to make it a good investment.

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.