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
It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
My single biggest financial concern is the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency. I can't imagine anything more disastrous to… — Sam Zell Copy Share Image
But the higher our standard of living, the higher our levels of education, the further people will look around. And we can… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in… — Vijay Mallya 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
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
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,… — George B. Cortelyou 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
To know what Fascism really is we must first of all know what it is we are fighting, what the Fascist regimes… — George Seldes Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.;… — Ludwig von Mises 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
I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is… — Ronald J. Sider 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
It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in… — Thorstein Veblen 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
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
