Alfred Marshall Quotes

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Science is inextricably linked to our economy. It has been for the last 50 years and it will be for the next 50 years.

Ideas are what power our economy.

South Korea’s research and development output has increased from half the size of the Arab world to 20 times as large, and Israel’s research output on a per capita basis is 26 times as large as the Arab world’s.

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.

Driven by globalization and technology our country and our economy is becoming different every day.

The secret of success lies in investing into education, as the wealthy countries do. This means not in technology and machines first. That would come later, with educated and qualified individuals. Considering that we are lagging behind reforms, the only way to make up for such gap is to have a non-linear development by making leaps, all of which would be have an education as a base. Education, training, knowledge, are the major driving forces of progress.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

When man invents or produces anything of any value, volumes are written on the subject.

Intellectual capital drives financial capital and growth.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

Africa is the future.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.