Quotes About Prosperity

The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.

If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvestment and businesses welcome.

If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

Where civil society is welcomed, communities are more safe, more secure, and more prosperous.

The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.

I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

We prefer paychecks to welfare checks for the American people and a robust middle class with rising wages.

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!

When you are healthy mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually - when you're doing well, you're likely to do good things in life.

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

I don't give a damn about the money. I earn my living well enough.

I'm not as rich as I could be or should be, but I've done well enough.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.

As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being.

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.