Brain Drain Quotes

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.

Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

Migration powers economic growth, reduces inequalities, and connects diverse societies. Yet it is also a source of political tensions and human tragedies.

If people are coming into the country to add an extra dimension, to bring skills and expertise with them, we have always been open to that.

Immigration isn't always good for the economy or jobs.

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.

It is too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.

The energy in Silicon Valley is because of the very talented engineers immigrating from around the world, especially Indians and Chinese. They are the best engineers, and Japan doesn't have enough of them.

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

What is America? Best brains in the world migrate to the U.S. If there are best brains, they will produce best results.

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

If you can attract highly educated people from other parts of the country and keep your own best and brightest, chances are the job creators are going to be successful.

At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me. These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.

If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears.

the skilled immigrants will be long gone. They’ll be back home building the next Googles and Intels in other countries, and we will wake up 5 years from now and wonder how we let this happen.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

Migrants make huge contributions to both their host countries and countries of origin. They take jobs that local workforces cannot fill, boosting economic activity. Many are innovators and entrepreneurs.

Like every country, North Korea has some very smart people. They could be contributing a lot more to science and other areas, but North Koreans are forced to spend so much time memorising the fake history of our dictators and other propaganda, so are at a huge disadvantage.

Britain’s efforts to restrict immigration have become “a very large obstacle” to hiring the best scientists.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the 'competition' between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of 'exploitation' for which you have damned the strong.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan - thin, slow, and it leaks.