Chuan Leekpai Quotes

People look for an edge in an uncertain world.

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

Modern competition is often described as a fight of all against all.

Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows, therefore, that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near and distant. Only through a dynamic and a soundly expanding world economy can the living standards of individual nations be advanced to levels which will permit a full realization of our hopes for the future.

Only the paranoid survive.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

If companies are able to raise equity from the market, then their problems for financing incomplete projects will come to end. Investment cycle in the capital market can kick-start with the money of savers and investors.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

This battle for global talent is so important.

Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

No matter how hard we work, there is always a gap with Western brands.

Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

What I will say is that business is not a nice area. And you might say that I am a business woman, but I'm not into cut-throat business moves.

This [Asia, Australia & New Zealand] is going to be the world't largest market. If we're not there setting the rules, then somebody else is.

Nearly every one of the foreign financial crises of recent decades has led to an increase in the U. S. trade deficit.

The problem is, how can we help them get rich and stay rich ourselves?

When trade is at stake it is your last retrenchment; you must defend it, or perish.

We must compete or retreat.

It's the nation that's at risk, not just Oklahoma or Pennsylvania. It's the whole country that's competing with Korea, Germany and Japan.

When a nation devalues its currency, it, in effect, increases its tariffs.

Market expansion is not an opportunity. It is a necessity.

In the economic competition, in the technological competition, we are competitors; we are not allies.