Standards Of Living Quotes

• What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Success, Sensual, Energy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “The New Industrial State”

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• If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Zig Ziglar, Dwight "Ike" Reighard (2013). “The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Life, Simple, Greatness

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

  Warren Buffett

  Fun, Cost Of Living, Doe

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• A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Civilization, Culture, Standards

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Jobs, People

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

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• A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

  William Baldwin

  Money, Mean, People

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• The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to become, after a time, an indispensable necessity taken for granted by everyone. Luxury consumption provides industry with the stimulus to discover and introduce new, things. It is one of the dynamic factors in our economy. To it we owe the progressive innovations by which the standard of living of all strata of the population has been gradually raised.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Taken, Luxury, People

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.19, VM eBooks

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• The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

  Ernst Engel

  Population, Proportion, Standards

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• People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Jobs, Mean, Pride

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• Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible under a free economy -- and a man's position is determined, not by his productive ability and achievement, but by political pull and force. Under both systems, sacrifice is invoked as a magic, omnipotent solution in any crisis -- and "the public good" is the altar on which victims are immolated.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Political

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.175, Penguin

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• we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

  Ida Tarbell

  Character, Standards, Consumerism

  Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.318, Ravenio Books

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• The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Progress, Economic History, Trends

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• We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Children, Growth, Way

  "The Inflection Is Near?" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. Match 7, 2009.

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• Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  People, Care, Given

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• Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

  Andy Stanley

  Breathing, Creating, Quality

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• Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.

  Leo Burnett

  Standards, Made, Mass

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• I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, People, Support

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

  Randy Alcorn

  Giving, Income, Looks

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• Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, East Berlin, Goal

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.126, Penguin

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• Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.

  John Holdren

  Country, Mean, Order

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• A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It will be required sooner if we are to hold the risks of climate change to acceptable levels. The costs that we bear in making an early adjustment will bring forward, and reduce for future times, the costs of the inevitable eventual adjustment away from fossil fuels.

  Ross Garnaut

  Change, Humanity, Risk

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• People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Strong, Children, Growing Up

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• The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which these other forms of protection can be soundly built. Thus, the individual's own work, his planning and his thrift will bring him a higher standard of living upon his retirement, or his family a higher standard of living in the event of his death, than would otherwise be the case. Hence the system both encourages thrift and self-reliance, and helps to prevent destitution in our national life.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Retirement, Pension Plans, Self

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• Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.

  Wallace Carothers

  Mother, Earth, Population

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