Quotes About Prosperity

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

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.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.

Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones. The goal of all such persons seems to be to make themselves cuddly and nonthreatening.

If no one is barfing, then none of us is likely to die, at least over a time span of weeks.

Gold is where you find it.

If you talk to the big polluters, they'll tell you that we have to choose between economic prosperity on one hand and environmental protection on the other, and that's a false choice.

Money's awfully nice to have. In fact, all things considered, I think, 'Rene, that it's even worth the price.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD once wrote, "The rich are different from you and me," to which Hemingway famously replied, "Yes, they have more money.

The guy did okay for himself.

it's not owning property that gives you security; it just gives your creditors security. Real security comes from having a steady income

But while it was their opportunities that made these men fortunate, it was their own merit that enabled them to recognize these opportunities and turn them to account, to the glory and prosperity of their country.

For no man is found so prudent as to know how to adapt himself to these changes, both because he cannot deviate from the course to which nature inclines him, and because, having always prospered while adhering to one path, he cannot be persuaded that it would be well for him to forsake it. And so when occasion requires the cautious man to act impetuously, he cannot do so and is undone: whereas had he changed his nature with time and circumstances, his fortune would have been unchanged.

I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.

But a man is not often found sufficiently circumspect to know how to accommodate himself to the change, both because he cannot deviate from what nature inclines him to do, and also because, having always prospered by acting in one way, he cannot be persuaded that it is well to leave it; and, therefore, the cautious man, when it is time to turn adventurous, does not know how to do it, hence he is ruined; but had he changed his conduct with the times fortune would not have changed.

And again, he need not make himself uneasy at incurring a reproach for those vices without which the state can only be saved with difficulty, for if everything is considered carefully, it will be found that something which looks like virtue, if followed, would be his ruin; whilst something else, which looks like vice, yet followed brings him security and prosperity.