Quotes About Prosperity

And now, having endeavoured to suit everyone by many weddings, few deaths, and as much prosperity as the eternal fitness of things will permit, let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain fall for ever on the March family.

Money is the means and the ends of my mercenary existence.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. It will be powerful cement of our union.

I do think we are and shall be great consumers.

I never met a man who had such a love of money.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

To mark their new financial status

Both Jefferson and Adams detested people who earned a living shuffling financial paper, and when Adams launched a bitter tirade in later years against the iniquitous banking system, Jefferson agreed that the business was "an infinity of successive felonious larcenies." 9 That banks could serve any economic purpose—that they could generate prosperity that might enrich the few but also lubricate the wheels of commerce—seemed alien to both men.

You must distribute it faster than it grows! If you do not, it will crush you and your children and your children's children.

The remedy is for people to stop watching the ticker, listening to the radio, drinking bootleg gin, and dancing to jazz . . . and return to the old economics and prosperity based upon saving and working.

What also gave the book its force was Lloyd's political message: "Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

Rockefeller knew that he now needed a larger and more efficient method for disposing of his fortune.

That is, the man who would be rich must be thrifty.

There was now a self-perpetuating quality to his wealth.

governments don't produce economic growth people do.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

For Kim did nothing with an immense success.

Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.

Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the world's richest nations.

But for all we've lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of many lives and resources. But we who were so intoxicated with our own prosperity have once again planted the seed of hope. So I choose to believe.

Vede bem, habitantes de Tebas, meus concidadãos! Este é Édipo, decifrador dos enigmas famosos; ele foi um senhor poderoso e por certo o invejastes em seus dias passados de prosperidade invulgar. Em que abismos de imensa desdita ele agora caiu! Sendo assim, até o dia fatal de cerrarmos os olhos não devemos dizer que um mortal foi feliz de verdade antes dele cruzar as fronteiras da vida inconstante sem jamais ter provado o sabor de qualquer sofrimento!

God can cause us to forget all our toil and make us fruitful even in the land of our affliction. That

Work hard, make money, have fun.