Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living. — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living. — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound. — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
When in one area of the world the standard of living and the size of the middle class increases, it is going… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe,… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and… — Frank Dane Copy Share Image
America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million.… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid… — John Ringo Copy Share Image
Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off...… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
