Prosperity Quotes - Page 14

• Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Money, Views

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.19, Prabhat Prakashan

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• So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, People, Perspective

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

  Boris Johnson

  Wealth Creation, Favour, Economy

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• Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

  Michio Kaku

  Media, America, Visibility

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2009.

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• Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

  Jack Kemp

  Jobs, Opportunity, Goal

  "In Their Own Words; Excerpts From The Remarks By Housing Secretary Kemp", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 1992.

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• Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Chinese, World, Wealth

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• With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

  Nick Lampson

  Jobs, Past, Years

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• No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Nations

  Rush H. Limbaugh (1994). “See, I Told You So”, Pocket Books

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• Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Real, Government

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• All wealth is the product of labor.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Fruit Of Labor, Wealth

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• The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

  Mia Love

  Hard Work, Government, Promise

  "In Utah, GOP House Candidate Out To Make History". Interview With Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

  Samora Machel

  Dog, Men, Vaccines

  Samora Machel (1975). “The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel”

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• The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Play, People

  "Calling on the Private Sector: It’s Time to Play a Role" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

  Imelda Marcos

  Wealth, Rich, Know How

  The Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 1998.

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• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Honesty, Opportunity

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• The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

  Jon Meacham

  Country, Wall, America

  "Show Them the Money" by Jon Meacham, ideas.time.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, Important, World

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Money, War

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• Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

  Moliere

  Helping Others, Men, Doe

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• I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Eye, Thinking

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• Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

  Guru Nanak

  Kings, Dominion, Ants

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• I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Bed, Want, Honest

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• Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Islands, Littles, Lessons

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• I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Powerful, Stupid

  "Questions Over Obama's Off-the-Cuff Remark". "America's Election HQ" with Martha Maccallum, www.foxnews.com. October 14, 2008.

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• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Tyrants, People

  "The War on Libya and US Foreign Policy: Ronald Reagan, 1986 versus Barack Obama, 2011". Interview with Rick Rozoff, www.globalresearch.ca. March 28, 2011.

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