Quotes About Prosperity

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about 'rich.' Not only am I rich from doing some of things I've been able to do, but I'm rich in spirit. I'm rich in health. I'm rich in every way possible.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

We want Hong Kong to do well.

We justify our heartless calls by our commitment to one day defeat all our enemies so the people can live the remainder of their days in peace and prosperity. We've become politicians.

This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.

Capitalism is war socialism is peace.

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

The brimming glass that overflows its own rim moistens the earth about it.

If we prosper only through the suffering or death of another, then that is not prosperity.

Peter Victor, can we 'go slower by design, not disaster'? Or even—in the name of agnosticism —what would it take to design an economy that can handle GDP growth without hankering after it, deal with it without depending upon it, embrace it without exacting it?

By agnostic, I do not mean simply not caring whether GDP growth is coming or not, nor do I mean refusing to measure whether it is happening or not. I mean agnostic in the sense of designing an economy that promotes human prosperity whether GDP is going up, down, or holding steady.

aspiration: whatever people consider necessary for a good life.

the idea of ever-growing output fits snugly with the widely used metaphor of progress being a movement forwards and upwards.

We have an economy that needs to grow, whether or not it makes us thrive. We need an economy that makes us thrive, whether or not it grows.

In the words of Henry Wallich, governor of the US Federal Reserve in the 1970s, 'Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.'70

The Wealth of Nations.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

they put their faith in their intellectual assets and attained material success with admirable speed. To speak in everyday language: they got somewhere in life.

Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics. It may have been a moral issue in the North where prosperity was derived from the machines of heavy industry, but in the agrarian South, where fields had to be tended by vast work forces of human labor, the issue was primarily a matter of economics.

It is possible to speak concretely about God's providnce only on the basis of the blood of the cross ... He who sees things this way will never succumb to the temptation to identify prosperity with blessing and adversity with curse. In faith ... one can accept prosperity as the gift of God and adversity as God's hand graciously leading him to faith.

Gather the best you have to offer and create a heartfelt, prosperous life full of purpose.