Quotes About Prosperity

business men accumulate great fortunes, by giving before they try to get.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are.

Only those who become "money conscious" ever accumulate great riches. "Money consciousness" means that the mind has become so thoroughly saturated with the DESIRE for money, that one can see one's self already in possession of it.

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Second: repeat this program night and morning until you can see (in your imagination) the money you intend to accumulate.

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

Thirty-nine percent of Americans will spend a year in the top 5 percent of the income distribution, 56 percent will find themselves in the top 10 percent, and 73 percent will spend a year in the top 20 percent.

wealth does not count so much into one's well-being as the route one uses to get to it.

The formation of our beliefs is fraught with superstitions—even today (I might say, especially today). Just as one day some primitive tribesman scratched his nose, saw rain falling, and developed an elaborate method of scratching his nose to bring on the much-needed rain, we link economic prosperity to some rate cut by the Federal Reserve Board, or the success of a company with the appointment of the new president "at the helm.

stability is not good for the economy: firms become very weak during long periods of steady prosperity devoid of setbacks, and hidden vulnerabilities accumulate silently under the surface—so delaying crises is not a very good idea.

Yet in practice it is the negative that's used by the pros, those selected by evolution: chess grandmasters usually win by not losing; people become rich by not going bust (particularly when others do); religions are mostly about interdicts; the learning of life is about what to avoid. You reduce most of your personal risks of accident thanks to a small number of measures.

Serious empirical investigation (largely thanks to one Lant Pritchet, then a World Bank economist) shows no evidence that raising the general level of education raises income at the level of a country. But we know the opposite is true, that wealth leads to the rise of education—not an optical illusion. We

we have never been richer in the history of mankind. And we have never been more in debt

The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

as self-interest can be the driver of growth.

if wealth is giving you fewer options instead of more (and more varied) options, you're doing it wrong.

Just as one day some primitive tribesman scratched his nose, saw rain falling, and developed an elaborate method of scratching his nose to bring on the much-needed rain, we link economic prosperity to some rate cut by the Federal Reserve Board, or the success of a company with the appointment of the new president "at the helm.

you need to know whether you do not like the pursuit of money and wealth because you genuinely do not like it, or because you are rationalizing your inability to be successful at it with the argument that wealth is not a good thing because it is bad for one's digestive system or disturbing for one's sleep or other such arguments.

wealth itself does not really make one happy (above, of course, some subsistence level); but positive changes in wealth may

that wealth leads to the rise of education

the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

But since abundance would bring the opposite effect

to make money you must first survive

chess grandmasters usually win by not losing; people become rich by not going bust (particularly when others do);