Quotes About Prosperity

The minute I went into business, I was a success, and I've done well ever since.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. Ludwig von Mises

America's poor are better off than much of the European middle class today, and better off than the American middle class of the 1950s.

Felicity, therefore (by which we mean continual delight), consisteth not in having prospered, but in prospering

About one-half of the millionaires in America don't live in upscale neighborhoods.

Wealth is not the same as income. If you make a good income each year and spend it all, you are not getting wealthier. You are just living high.

America is still the land of opportunity. Over the past thirty years I have consistently found that 80 to 85 percent of millionaires are self-made.

Nearly all (95 percent) of the millionaires we surveyed own stocks; most have 20 percent or more of their wealth in publicly traded stocks.

Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be. For

Wealth is not the same as income.

THEIR ADULT CHILDREN ARE ECONOMICALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT.

They became millionaires by budgeting and controlling expenses, and they maintain their affluent status the same way. Sometimes

I don't own big hats, but I have a lot of cattle.

Being frugal is the cornerstone of wealth-building

Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend. How

There is a reason why the top 1 percent of the income producers in America pays 37 percent of the entire federal income tax bill, why the top 5 percent pays 57 percent, the top 10 percent pay 68 percent, and the top 25 percent pay 85 percent. High-income producers are the only ones who earn enough money to do so! The bottom 50 percent of the income producers contributes less than 4 percent of the total tax bill.

If you're not yet wealthy but want to be someday, never purchase a home that requires a mortgage that is more than twice your household's total annual realized income. Living

If you're not yet wealthy but want to be someday, never purchase a home that requires a mortgage that is more than twice your household's annual realized income.

Simply stated, your net worth [augmented] should equal 10 percent of your age times your annual realized household income (0.10 × age × income = expected net worth). If your actual net worth is above this expected figure, I consider you affluent, given your age and income characteristics.

Wealth is not the same as income. If you make a good income each year and spend it all, you are not getting wealthier. You are just living high. Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend. How

They became millionaires by budgeting and controlling expenses, and they maintain their affluent status the same way.

Their children will have it better. They will not have to take significant risks. They will become physicians, attorneys, and accountants. Their capital is their intellect.

PAWs need to achieve, to create wealth, to become financially independent, to build something from scratch.