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Quotes About Prosperity

The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did not know existed - of a true independence. That is the real gift of America, not its fabled wealth and prosperity.
~ Azar Nafisi
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
~ Barack Obama
This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
~ Barack Obama
WHEN WOMEN SUCCEED, AMERICA SUCCEEDED
~ Barack Obama
I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
~ Barack Obama
Later, you add to that definition: making money. How much money can you make?
~ Barack Obama
Durante siglos, al menos desde la reforma protestante, las elites económicas occidentales se han regocijado en la idea de que ser pobre es una situación voluntaria. Los calvinistas la consideraban una consecuencia de la dejadez y las malas costumbres; y los pensadores positivos la atribuyen a una incapacidad obstinada para abrazar la abundancia.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
But apparently you don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the cruel irony that prosperity is shrinking the stock of affordable housing nationwide: The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on rents.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
De las cuatro mayores megaiglesias de Estados Unidos, tres difunden el "evangelio de la prosperidad
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same
~ Barbara Kingsolver
But don't you want lots of money? Beene, I spent many years working for the Belgians in the rubber plantation at Coquilhatville, and I saw rich men there. They were always unhappy and had very few children.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Some of us know how we came by our fortune, and some of us don't, but we wear it all the same.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
As the magnitude of the gain increases, the amount of additional satisfaction people get out of each additional unit decreases. The shape of this curve conforms to what economists have long talked about as the "law of diminishing marginal utility." As the rich get richer, each additional unit of wealth satisfies them less.
~ Barry Schwartz
Both books point out how the growth of material affluence has not brought with it an increase in subjective well-being. But they go further. Both books argue that we are actually experiencing a fairly significant decrease in well-being.
~ Barry Schwartz
All that this country desires is that the other republics on this continent shall be happy and prosperous," Theodore Roosevelt declared, "and they cannot be happy and prosperous unless they maintain order within their boundaries and behave with a just regard for their obligations toward outsiders.
~ Stephen Kinzer
The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper while farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn— all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao.
~ Stephen Mitchell
the real mantra of success is sustainability and growth.
~ Stephen R. Covey
The Master Key to Riches by Napoleon Hill.
~ Steve Chandler
It's a lot easier to make money from this position. Byron Katie Work and Money
~ Steve Chandler
Wealth is a common side effect of no remorse.
~ Steve Niles
income and education are strongly correlated
~ Steven D. Levitt
The chief merit of the price system is that it makes effective use of information that is not available to any single decision maker. When the price system is overridden, information is discarded. When information is discarded, resources are misallocated. When resources are misallocated, prosperity suffers. If you're trying to make people prosperous, relying on prices is your best strategy.
~ Steven E. Landsburg
A world that is less invigorated by honor, glory, and ideology and more tempted by the pleasures of bourgeois life is a world in which fewer people are killed.
~ Steven Pinker
Poverty has no causes," wrote the economist Peter Bauer. "Wealth has causes.
~ Steven Pinker