Quotes About Prosperity

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone else. But once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brain - they innovate, creating more for everyone else.

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

New highways, ports, and runways appear economically foolish if we don't understand the economic growth that flows from such investments.

It's crazy, it really is, to just be fortunate enough to continue to be in positions to win, to be playing well, to be healthy.

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

It is right that people and businesses retain as much of their own money as possible so that they have the freedom to innovate and invest in the future.

Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

Globalization obviously has the potential to be good. That doesn't mean it's good for everybody. There's a very large number of people in India and China who benefited directly from globalization, but it doesn't mean everybody in America benefits from globalization.

You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

Affluence creates poverty.

You are not created for poverty.

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression.

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.

You get a million-dollar contract, you can live off that the rest of your life.

I was blessed to get the contracts I had.