Prosperity Quotes

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When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a… — Cato the Elder
The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good,… — Robert Dodsley
The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or… — Bill Vaughan
It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only… — Karl Marx
The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity to one of… — John Quincy Adams
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. — Benjamin Franklin
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. — Benjamin Franklin
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not… — Bill Gates
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be… — Henry Louis Gates
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. — Henry George
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game. — Julia Gillard
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. — Billy Graham
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours… — Ulysses S. Grant
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. — Calvin Coolidge
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. — Calvin Coolidge
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for… — Ann Coulter
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition,… — Mitch Daniels

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