Klaus Schwab Quotations

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,