Country Success Quotes

For centuries, economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have tried to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than others. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to research new ways of measuring national competitiveness.

When I was elected to Congress, this was the No. 1 issue businesses brought up. They said that if we want this country to succeed, we need immigration reform.

Immigration and openness to refugees is an important part of our country's success and, quite honestly, to Uber's.

A country that does not have stable institutions and a clear constitution cannot be successful.

I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed.

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

If you want your country to do well as everyone says, bring a positive light to it.

If I had my choice, I wish this country, America, were running great. I wish I could stand up and say, "Wow, this place is really running fantastically."

Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs.

A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries.

Most of the countries in the world are outside the E.U., and they are doing very nicely, thank you.

That is the way successful countries, and Canada has been one of the most successful countries over the past quarter century, they operate. That when you win, you win within limits, when you lose, you accept the outcome.

For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.

You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog through geographies and ethnicities and all kinds of variables, it's the ability to adapt and adopt, what Darwin talked about.

It would be wrong to suggest that Scotland could not be another such successful, independent country.

The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with the business of the city so much competition, so much rivalry, so much necessity for industry, that I think it is a perpetual, chronic, wholesale violation of natural law. There are ten men that can succeed in the country, where there is one that can succeed in the city.