Quotes About Prosperity

At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.

People who have reached France or other prosperous western democracies are still desperate to come to the U.K. Because we live here too, we don't want that desirability to change. So let's have an asylum system that can cope.

The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.

I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.

In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.

Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Everyone has a salary. Everyone has hopes and dreams for where they can invest their money. Everyone wants to do the best they can with it, and they don't want to be subjected to any sort of predatory lending.

It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

I am fortunate enough to find opportunities that have a lot of presence.

As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it.

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

I've been blessed to make pretty good money over the years.

The global economy is in pretty good shape.

It's hard for bad things to happen when you have no debt.

We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.

I'm really, truly, deep down happy for my friends when they do well. I want them to all succeed and be billionaires.

The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.

When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.

Like most Americans, I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I am pro-future, pro-hope, and pro-abundance. I am pro-frontier and will talk to and work with anyone else who shares my belief that it is our goal and destiny to expand life and civilization into space.

Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.