Israel Quotes

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.
You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.
Achievements in successful export industries, which need highly skilled people, can create an area as flourishing as South Korea and Singapore.
For us to become a nation, everyone - including Arabs, Druze, ultra-Orthodox and new immigrants - must feel that they belong. Their success is extremely important to us. If they succeed, they will come to understand the advantages of democracy and freedom.
Germany and South Korea were able to lower unemployment through success in export industries.
I believe that anybody who has to export, and who believes in skills, gets away from fighting about history.
I built the windmill 30 years ago in Tefen, and I think it was the right thing to build at that time, and I don't think that we did much with the solar or with windmills. Not much was done. I think we were too busy.
I made my money in Iscar. I spend my money on the industrial parks.
I need money to build parks. I will build more parks. That's all I'm interested in.
I see a lot of tech companies developing technology here and selling it abroad, but I don't see new factories being built, and that worries me, because it means we are not creating the jobs that will guarantee a good life for Israelis.
I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.
If we see to it that the Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians have jobs, we will actually be securing our own future.
Industry is important, but everyone thinks money is important.
Instead of giving people fish, teach them how to use hooks.
Israel and our vicinity is an area that traditionally has little industry. The area is known for history, it's known for religious stories, it's known a bit for agriculture, but... neither was the Jewish population thinking about export industry, nor the Arab or Palestinian population.
My purpose is to keep people busy and out of mischief - to create good and interesting jobs for them that help families stay together.
Our partnership with the American Warren Buffett, from my perspective, is aimed at creating more jobs.
People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.
Some countries were able to turn their manufacturing operations into advanced technology areas. South Korea is a great example of this, and manufacturing there is done using advanced technological methods.
Tech is important, but if you look at even the successful tech start-ups, you see they employ only dozens of people at most. Tech is never going to have the impact on the job market that manufacturing has.
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Adam Smith
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