Achieved Quote by Charles E. Wilson

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the…

— Anonymous

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its…

— Paul Krugman

For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and by new…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in…

— Alan Greenspan

For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.

— Anonymous

It must be acknowledged that an increasing proportion of the world's population is living in cities, in almost completely human-made environments. But we should…

— David Wong

“When significant numbers of people see their standards of living fall despite an ever-growing economic pie, it threatens the social contract of the economy…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth,…

— Ronald Reagan

There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to…

— John Zerzan

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

— Joe Lonsdale