Bill Gates Quotes

China is a BRIC country. BRIC country means Brazil, Russia, India and China. This emerging economy really is helping the revival of the world economy.

China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble.

If the United States does well [economically], then the whole world does well.

Young people in the third world can participate in global security if they also can participate in global prosperity.

We are only 5 percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the world's economy. We have to be able to trade in order to grow.

Our country has the potential not just to be the giant of Africa but a major economic giant in the world.

Physical infrastructure remains important (particularly in developing nations), but concurrently investing in the development of a knowledge-based economy is essential to sustaining healthy economic growth and creating well-paying jobs in a highly competitive, ideas-driven global economy.

In the 21st century, we face new and more intense global competition, spanning the ambitious and industrious economies from Latin America to Asia. To meet the challenge, Britain must rediscover and reward the lost virtue of hard work - a tried and tested route to individual success, national prosperity, and a fairer society.

The world economy is growing so fast.

The OECD should promote everything that's consistent with its mandate, which is to make the world economy work better.

In today's information-driven economy, business and scientific talent constrains growth.

Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.

The United States has the world's largest and most innovative economy, an unmatched rule of law, and a free market that is the envy of the international community. For investors, we are the reserve currency.

Our mission is to make the world economy work better.

Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using global demand to pull people and resources out of subsistence activities into more productive work.

Given that trade benefited the Asian economies on the way up, it seems natural that the slowdown in global trade, whatever its causes, could lead to some loss of dynamism and growth in the region.

China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in world poverty.

We understand that America's prosperity is bound up with the prosperity of other nations, including emerging market nations.

I believe investing in welfare is an investment in the future and in people.

As mayor, I've traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico to meet with heads of state and business leaders to promote trade with L.A. companies and through L.A.'s seaports and airports - because that generates L.A. jobs.

There is no country like the United States, with its diversified industrial base, technology leadership, innovation and strong pressure to build companies to make them grow.