Klaus Schwab Quotations

We have a number of vulnerabilities in our economies.

I think a number of initiatives have been newly taken or enhanced during this meeting that will have a tangible impact.

We have chosen China for our Global Industry Summit because we believe that China is well positioned to serve as a global hub for working with the next generation of corporate champions.

We have chosen China for our Global Industry Summit because we believe China is well positioned to serve as a global hub for working with the next generation of corporate champions.

We give a special place to the GCC and we want to ensure a strong participation at the annual international meeting to help overcome all misunderstandings.

With great concern and pain, I just learned that Global Agenda, a publication distributed to our members at the Annual Meeting 2006, contains an article calling for a boycott of Israel.

As the world's financial capital and the site of the recent terrorist attacks, there could be no better place than New York City to confront these issues,

European CEOs have to act much more as business politicians ... in the vacuum left over by a world where we have less and less boundaries, less and less power of national governments.

The World Economic Forum tries to keep away from issues that are too politicized.

This article is totally in contradiction to my own, and the Forum's, mission and values.

Switzerland is one of the best places in the world in terms of quality of infrastructure and services.

In these extraordinary times, greater international cooperation is needed to reverse the global economic downturn, eradicate poverty, promote security and enhance cultural understanding,

By highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of an economy, policy-makers and business leaders are provided with a tool to assist them in the formulation of improved economic policies and institutional reforms,

High oil prices and the emergence of a number of new players on the world stage - not just China and India but also Russia and even Iran - have made it possible to play the major powers off against each other.

Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneur- ship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world’s issues will not go unaddressed.

The best answer to the extremists is to build a better world.

The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort.

The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this meeting is at the beginning of a renaissance of trust.

We do not want to just define issues; we want to help to create solutions

A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart.

The biggest change in the world today is that the young don’t learn from the old, they teach the old about the world today.

We have too large a disparity in the world; we need more inclusiveness… If we continue to have uninclusive growth and we continue with the unemployment situation, particularly youth unemployment, our global society is not sustainable.

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish,

The immediate temptation would have been to cancel our Forum in Egypt next month, but for the sake of a more peaceful future for humankind we have to show our solidarity by holding this meeting.