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Quotes About Prosperity

Dinks (Double Income, No Kids), or Henrys (High Earners, Not Rich Yet).
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
For of fortunes sharpe adversiteeThe worste kynde of infortune is this,A man to han ben in prosperitee,And it remembren, whan it passed is.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
~ Geoffrey F. Abert
bring in the big bucks or perish.
~ Geoffrey West
Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.
~ George Ade
Query 1. Whether there ever was, is, or will be, an industrious nation poor, or an idle rich?
~ George Berkeley
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The love of money is the root of all virtue.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
~ George Borrow
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses.
~ George Chapman
Peliharalah baik-baik pekerjaan anda, maka ia akan memelihara anda dengan baik pula.
~ George Chapman
The establishment of the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1867 had brought an interlude of peace and prosperity, and a lifting of restrictions against Jews, to a country best known, according to Klári von Neumann, "for the gallantry of its men, the beauty of its women, and last, but not least, for its hopelessly unhappy and unlucky history.
~ George Dyson
We have come a long way from sod huts and muddy boots to an economy that produces billions of dollars' worth of soap. And we may be learning what Mark Twain meant: "Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
~ George F. Will
Money is not a magic wand but a measuring stick, not wealth but a gauge of it.
~ George Gilder
By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world's most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.
~ George Gilder
The sight of a being who is not graced by any touch of a pure and good will but who yet enjoys an uninterrupted prosperity can never delight a rational and impartial spectator. Thus a good will seems to constitute the indispensable condition of being even worthy of happiness.
~ Immanuel Kant
The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness.
~ Immanuel Kant
I tasted injustice and the special horror of seeing its perpetrators flourish. How frequent and how bitter is this aspect of human wretchedness. The wicked prosper in front of our eyes and go on and on and on prospering. What a blessing it must have been once to be able to believe in hell. A great and deep human consolation was lost to us when that ancient and respectable belief faded from our minds.
~ Iris Murdoch
She had the instinctive generosity of the thoroughly lucky person.
~ Iris Murdoch
Fortune is beastly — it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
~ Irving Stone
Jer ako dodate samo malo na malo, i to ?esto ?inite, uskoro ?e malo postati veliko.
~ Irving Stone
What would you consider a good job? Answered as follows: A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money. When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.
~ Isaac Asimov
Surely it is better that the immoral learn morality through adversity than that the moral forget morality in prosperity.
~ Isaac Asimov
Con toda seguridad es preferible que el inmoral aprenda la moral a través de la adversidad, a que el moral olvide serlo en la prosperidad.
~ Isaac Asimov