Quotes About Prosperity

although within a country rich people were generally happier than poor people, richer countries did not have happier citizens than poor countries. Since then the 'Easterlin paradox

Trust is the foundation upon which our success and prosperity rest, and it must be re-earned every day, in every way, by every one of us.

The characteristic signature of prosperity is increasing specialisation.

Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?

Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

I'm not interested in helping anybody. I want to make money.

Let those who are actually concerned with peace observe that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history—a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world—from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? There's two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster.

So I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all—that I was a man who made money.

A free mind and a free economy are corollaries. One can't exist without the other.

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality.

The greatest food for the greatest number—that's my slogan. At a time of desperate public need, it's our duty to sacrifice our luxurious tastes and eat our way back to prosperity by adapting ourselves to the simple, wholesome foodstuff on which the peoples of the Orient have so nobly subsisted for centuries. There's a great deal that we could learn from the peoples of the Orient.

Here, we trade achievements, not failures—values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together.

Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of disaster. The consequences have varied accordingly.

Money inside a man's pocket has the power to turn into confidence inside his mind.

A free mind and a free economy are corollaries. One can't exist without the other. The dollar sign, as the symbol of the currency of a free country, is the symbol of the free mind.

Dr. Simon Pritchett. He was declaring that the new invention was an instrument of social welfare, which guaranteed general prosperity, and that anyone who doubted this self-evident fact was an enemy of society, to be treated accordingly.

ideário dos saqueadores fez com que pessoas como o senhor passassem a encarar suas maiores realizações como um estigma vergonhoso, sua prosperidade como culpa, seus maiores filhos, os industriais, como vilões

Enquanto pessoas como o senhor não descobrirem que o dinheiro é a origem de todo o bem, estarão caminhando para sua própria destruição.

Into what bottomless, future-less sewer of the unpaid-for? Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together. Wealth, Dagny? What greater wreath is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Everyone living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

Es malo tener éxito, ya que el éxito se consigue por los fuertes a expensas de los débiles? Hemos dejado de agobiar a los débiles con nuestra ambición y quedan en libertad de prosperar sin nosotros.

El camino queda expedito -dijo-. Hemos de regresar al mundo. Y levantando la mano sobre la desolada tierra, trazó en el espacio el signo del dólar.

La utopía de la codicia