Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air. — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“the chance of an average developing-country person being an entrepreneur is more than twice that for a developed-country person (30 per cent… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Our kids are our biggest assets. They are the future of our country. If we provide them good education, no one can… — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A country without engineering skill and knowledge will never become a developed country. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed… — Amy Irving Copy Share Image
Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The Unites States is the largest developed country. Canada enjoys a flourishing economy and advanced technology. Mexico is an important developing country.… — Li Zhaoxing Copy Share Image
All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
The concept there was that the small number of developed countries within the Commonwealth should provide assistance. This was not just financial… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms:… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“As I would learn later on, developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world -- those individuals whose talents are… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
It [also] lives on its history, now, to some extent: its achievements [ of the Commonwealth] in Rhodesia and South Africa, which… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“To become a developed country, therefore, India’s GDP will have to grow at 12 per cent per year for at least a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“We are now more Socialist in many ways than any other developed country outside the Communist bloc—in the size of the public… — Keith Joseph Copy Share Image
By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will… — John Woodward Copy Share Image
Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There isn't a single developed country which does not have its citizens well educated. — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
Obviously it's easier to grow faster when you are a less developed country than when you are where the U.S. is. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it's where the rich use public transport — Mayor Of Bogota Copy Share Image
What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes,… — Andrew Jack Copy Share Image
By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that… — George Soros Copy Share Image