This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You know, what God uses to impress a pagan world is really the quality of life, the standard of living that we… — Kong Hee Copy Share Image
Conditions have changed, but we are still operating financially by the rules established during the Industrial Revolution-rules based on creating more material… — Joseph R. Dominguez Copy Share Image
It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
We are opposing the exploitation of man by man, similarly we must oppose the exploitation of peoples by other peoples ... but… — Bruno Kreisky Copy Share Image
The capitalist has this over the politician and the clergyman; he has in practice done more to raise the standard of living… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in… — Eugene H. Peterson 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
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
Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe and the eighth-largest economy in the world, and its banking system is collapsing. And Germany… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand 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
People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of society's… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs),… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
consumption can be very harmful to the world. I'm not a big proponent of the idea that consumption makes you morally bad,… — Judith Levine 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
Lets make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neigborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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