Top 28 Quotes On Economic Growth And Development
#1. Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.
Ma Jun
#2. EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.
John Michael Greer
#3. I love being the underdog sometimes.
Lil' Kim
#4. Taking measures to ensure stability could assure the long-term economic growth and welfare at a global level
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#5. As they were carting him off on a gurney, all I could think was, I wish that was me.
Julie Anne Peters
#6. TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making.
Pat Mitchell
#7. Don't mistake my distance for my not caring. It's actually the complete opposite.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#8. The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades.
Richard Attias
#9. Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.
Cher
#10. The Negro's economic problem was compounded by the emergence and growth of automation. Since discrimination and lack of education confined him to unskilled and semi-skilled labor, the Negro was and remains the first to suffer in these days of great technological development.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#11. If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.
Narendra Modi
#12. My definition of economic development is economic growth.
Mark Noble
#13. I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
Najib Razak
#14. It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.
Lee R. Raymond
#15. Nature is not a drag on growth. Its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development
Tony Juniper
#16. I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.
Marty Meehan
#17. Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy
John Holdren
#18. The old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've always used new technologies - we've used science; we've used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.
Barack Obama
#19. Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
Ban Ki-moon
#20. Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.
Gao Xingjian
#22. Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
Kailash Satyarthi
#23. The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.
Hawa Abdi
#24. Economic growth can enable development if it is supplemented by public policies that encourage circulation of wealth, especially into crucial areas such as public healthcare and education.
Jamshyd Godrej
#25. Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#26. Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical
Amartya Sen
#27. We shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.
Plato
#28. The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
Barry Commoner
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