Quotes About Prosperity

No matter how tough things are, there will always be people who are prospering.

He said, "McKinley was going around the country shouting prosperity when there was no prosperity for the poor man.

The poor prayed to become rich, and the rich prayed to become richer.

some nations have tried to bring about more economic equality in economically harmful ways, not through opening up free markets but through brute use of government power. Making equality a more important goal than overall economic growth is a mistake for a government, because merely distributing the same amount of wealth in different ways does not change the total amount of wealth a nation produces each year, which is the only way that any nation has grown from poverty to prosperity.

No other economic system has brought any country from poverty to prosperity. A free-market system is the only type that offers a workable alternative and resilient counterforce to the failed -isms and systems discussed in the previous chapter.

When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. . . . I was right. —GAHAN WILSON

Coral Gables was successful from the start.

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

Rich people can afford anything, even better laughter.

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

The American Dream is really money.

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

We are not facing great economic difficulties. The Indonesian people are faring reasonably well - just compare us to India or some other countries.

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

I will stay living in Staffordshire. Other people would be moving offshore. I am reasonably happy to help support the British economy. I have done very well out of Britain.

I want to see the economy rebound.

Our argument is everybody ought to be paying lower rates, and we ought to be focused on growing the economy and rebuilding the middle class.

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.

The inability of middle-class people to receive loans in developing countries has had a stifling effect on economic growth and prosperity around the globe.

Receiving an economic boost from the digital era is not a luxury - it is essential to ensuring that Europe continues to grow and deliver levels of prosperity that meet the rising expectations of its citizens.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

In God, there is no lack and no recession.

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.