Quotes About Prosperity

Having prospered as a merchant, Jesse was now worth $100,000—equivalent to nearly $3 million today—and employed about fifty people. When he reached sixty in 1854, he had begun to withdraw from active management of his business interests. His holdings included several tanneries near Portsmouth, Ohio, and leather goods stores in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Galena, Illinois.

Already so flush that he had invested in his first railroad stock, with cash to spare for the firm, Rockefeller was far more receptive.

about a billion dollars in tax-free income per annum in today's money.

These intimate conversations with myself, I'm sure, had a great influence on my life. I was afraid I could not stand my prosperity, and tried to teach myself not to get puffed up with any foolish notions.

Then it grew steadily clearer that Junior would be the receptacle for the bulk of the fortune.

It proved to be the luckiest stroke of his career.

He made them all wealthy beyond their dreams.

Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money, and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

I feel, therefore, that large sums of money are, in a sense, safer there than in other fields.

Rockefeller now left Andrew Carnegie far behind and probably had at least twice as much money as Carnegie did.

To the young American Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the paths to fortune are innumerable and all open;

No longer at the mercy of unpredictable economic forces, he thrived even in recessions.

it was a more auspicious time for an American banker than it had been when Peabody

Thanks to Washington and Hamilton, the American economy flourished; thanks to Adams, the Quasi-War with France had receded to a memory. Inheriting domestic prosperity and international peace, Jefferson benefited from exceptional good fortune as America settled down for the first time since the Revolution.

As mudanças na condição humana são incertas e frequentes. Muitos aos quais a fortuna concedeu favores podem descobrir que, no passado, as condições de sua família nada tinham de prósperas; e muitos que hoje estão na obscuridade procedem de ancestrais afortunados e nobres.

We were beginning to prosper and I felt very uneasy at my name being linked up with these speculators.

he had positively no gift, except that of making money.

I've got everything I need. That's the definition of affluence.

The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and that's good news for the bodyguard business.

on the right, in what looked like the most expensive neighborhood since money was invented. To

Remember, only fifty words makes the difference between a rich

The greatest revenge is massive success.

If capitalism is to work in the long run, it must make investments that are not in any particular individual's immediate self-interest but are in the human community's long-run self-interest (p. 308).

I only know that a wise man once said three hundred years ago that money is like muck; it doesn't do any good unless you spread it around.