Fareed Zakaria Quotes

Nation’s that don’t invest in the future tend not to do well there.

All I'll say is if you look at countries where it is - where they are rapidly growing, they're investing in their infrastructure. They're investing in their educations. They are trying to streamline regulations, but they're not neglecting key investments.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion.

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.

The real world is somebody is going to win; somebody is going to lose. There are costs to everything, but if you make the long term investment which is investment in education, public health and infrastructure, then we will have a better world.

States and nations do not build wealth by storing cash in a bank vault. They build wealth by expanding human solutions to human problems in order that more and more of her people — living and yet to be born — are able to enjoy a higher quality of life.

We believe infrastructure is key to economic growth, and we will do what we can to develop infrastructure in India.

Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.

Countries with fiscal space should invest in physical and social infrastructure to raise potential growth.

In a climate where governments are limited in what they can spend, trade and investment offer a path to fiscally responsible growth.

We need a president that's going to be focused on growth.

We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.

Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything. Even the IMF and the World Bank seem to mainly offer infrastructure spending as an alternative to austerity, although they are right to focus on the need for investment.

Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.

India's growth drivers are actually two growth drivers. One is consumption, which arises out of our demographic advantage. And the other is the investments. Because we need a lot of investment in the country.

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.

A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills necessary to grow a balanced economy.

The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.

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

Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.

Africa will thrive.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.