Quotes About Prosperity

Le depressioni, l'inflazione galoppante o la guerra civile possono rendere un paese povero, ma solo l'aumento di produttività può renderlo ricco.

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

there is a substratum of criminality even in Mexico's prosperous places, especially in the prosperous places, and it takes unexpected forms.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

tremendous profits

It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty.

Wang Lung, seeing them, was fit to burst with pride at this procession of his goodly sons, who were to continue after him the life of his body;

All was well with the land and when all was well with the land then everything was well.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

When art wins, everyone wins.

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

Creative freedom is prosperity for the soul.

Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.

You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.

The Land of Opportunity is an attitude.

Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive.

When you FEEL healthy and vital and alive and prosperous... you attract more of all those things.

Technological innovation makes human societies prosperous, but also involves the replacement of the old with the new, and the destruction of the economic privileges and political power of certain people.

If these rulers would only get the right advice from the right advisers, the thinking goes, prosperity would follow.

As such, the usual pattern of interaction between a critical juncture and existing institutional differences leading to further institutional and economic divergence played out again in the nineteenth century, and this time with an even bigger bang and more fundamental effects on the prosperity and poverty of nations.

while economic institutions are critical for determining whether a country is poor or prosperous, it is politics and political institutions that determine what economic institutions a country has.

Technological change is only one of the engines of prosperity, but it is perhaps the most critical one.