Quotes About Development

Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.

Like Free People, the Urban brand is planning to grow by expanding product assortments, expanding the brand reach and by improved marketing.

Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.

Typically, market-driven growth spawns urbanisation and leads to migration. Urban centres expand into humongous entities that thrive on an unending supply of energy.

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Unplanned urbanisation can create urban chaos and trigger urban violence.

Detroit can become a national model for urban revitalization, but to do so, it must break free from past development models.

In India, while there are some initiatives working with and for adolescent girls, there are too few state sponsored programmes for adolescent boys, be it rural or urban.

We need to reform our land use policies to build more housing in urban centers and near transit.

Urban planning should be done with the mindset that we are determining the city's fabric for 100 years to come.

We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.

Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

India's infrastructure is pathetic, with frequent electric power breakdowns even in metropolitan cities, dangerously unhealthy water supply in urban areas, a galloping rate of HIV infection, and gaping potholes that dot our national highways.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a male is when he's a baby.

The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.

Play is the work of the child.

What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.