Prosperity Quotes - Page 13

• President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas and the direction America has to take to build the 21st-century version of the American Dream: a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Responsibility, Opportunity

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Self, Wealth

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• Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

  Ann Coulter

  Blessed, Two, Eight

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• 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, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

  Mitch Daniels

  Jobs, Ambition, Optimism

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.205, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

  Epictetus

  Perfection, Promise, Progress

  Epictetus (1890). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”

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• The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

  Epicurus

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.89, Lulu.com

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• Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Honor, Enthusiasm, Sin

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• It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Fear, Pessimism, Worst

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• Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

  Euripides

  Character, Gold, Literature

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

  Euripides

  Freedom, Law, People

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• Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

  William Feather

  Money, Ideas, Energy

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• Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Greatness, Wealth

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• Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

  Henry Ford

  Happiness, Money, Business

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• It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Sick, Wealth

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• Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wealth, Finance, Economy

  "The Sydney Morning Herald" Newspaper, May 22, 1982.

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• 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

  Wealth, Finance, Economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 knowing exactly what it would focus on.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Thinking, Knowing

  Interview with Scott Bevan, www.radioaustralia.net.au. February 28, 2012.

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• 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 anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

  Henry Louis Gates

  America, People, Black

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

  Henry George

  Civilization, Distribution Of Wealth, Tendencies

  Louis Freeland Post, Henry George (1899). “The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrated Notes of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated by Henry George”

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• 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

  Zero, Guiding Principles, Games

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  "What Hemingway Would Think of the Internet", July 2, 2011.

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• Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, Military, War

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• The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

  James J. Hill

  Country, Entrepreneur, Credit

  James J. Hill (2001). “Highways of Progress”, p.307, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

  Naveen Jain

  Technology, Long, Innovation

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