Quotes About Prosperity

I am not merely abundant. I am infinite.

es posible ser un artista y tener éxito económico.

History is a raw onion sandwich, it just repeats, it burps. We've seen it again and again this year. Same old story, Same old oscillation between tyranny and rebellion, war and peace, prosperity and impoverishment

History is a raw onion sandwich, sir." "For what reason?" "It just repeats, sir. It burps. We've seen it again and again this year. Same old story, same old oscillation between tyranny and rebellion, war and peace, prosperity and impoverishment.

Commerce, Voltaire declared, was the base on which the greatness of our nation was built; now it's all that keeps us from going bankrupt.

A fortune begins with a penny.

Long-lasting peace … is unendurable to human beings, and tidal waves of disturbance have to be created in this state of peace … When we look at history, we adore the times of war when dramas happened one after another … which make reading about them great fun. When we get to the periods of peace and prosperity, we are bored … human nature loves sudden swift changes.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.