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"Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers."
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"Since we took office, inflation, the fiscal deficit and the balance of payments current account deficit have all fallen. GDP growth, foreign exchange reserves, stock market valuations, and investor confidence have all increased. This success is the result of a series of well thought out policies."

"Economic growth cannot only be restricted to a few cities and a few citizens. Development has to be all-round and all-inclusive."

"Belonging to the working class is the economy's punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class."

"Employment is the biggest form of slavery."

"Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax."

"Not every single broke and unemployed person needs a job, some need customers."

"That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."

"A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself."

"A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets."

"The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany."
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"First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry."

"We had a lot of international help especially from the EU and USA, which helped us to get out of this phase of emergency, to give some dynamism to Kosova."

"However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries."

"My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future."

"During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization."

"Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers."

"There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market."

"Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe."
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