Economic Prosperity Quotes

• The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

  Charles Kettering

  Keys, Prosperity, Creation

  "The End of Work" by Jeremy Rifkin, (p. 19), 1995.

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• If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.

  Ben Bernanke

  Long, Focus, Employment

  "Hearing Regarding Ben Bernanke's Nomination to Be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve". www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2005.

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• The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

  Francis Fukuyama

  Desire, Determined, Prosperity

  Francis Fukuyama (1995). “Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity”, Free Pr

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• When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

  Confucius

  Money, Use, Wealth

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• We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

  Indira Gandhi

  Believe, Prosperity, Economic

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

  Francis Bacon

  Adversity, Blessing, Christian Inspirational

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Adversity'

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• By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Men, Liberty, Wealth

  "Harmonies economiques". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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• Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

  Michael Porter

  Creativity, Issues, Innovation

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• The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

  Herbert Croly

  Land, Literature, Prosperity

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

  Jeb Bush

  Links, Saws, Prosperity

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• As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Spring, Winter, Growth

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• One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.

  Birch Bayh

  Party, People, Challenges

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• U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.

  Cliff Stearns

  Availability, Energy, Prosperity

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• Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose

  Barbara Boxer

  Issues, Quality, Together

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• We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

  Abdul Kalam

  Young Generation, Giving, India

  "Lok Sabha Debates" by India. Parliament, (p. 45), 2003.

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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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• 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 than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Motivational, Friendship, Positive

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

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• Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Best Friend, Adversity

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• I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.

  Charles Koch

  Principles, Way, Prosperity

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• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Adversity, Dark, Tough Times

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

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• In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm' - deliberately to avoid hyperbole. Unless we take steps to deal with it, the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets that we are working right now so hard to correct.

  Richard W. Fisher

  Distance, Government, Long

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• Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

  Jeb Bush

  Family Love, Population, Prosperity

  "'Immigrants Are More Fertile,' Jeb Bush Says In Reform Speech". www.npr.org. June 14, 2013.

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• A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

  Adam Smith

  People, Prosperity, Economics

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• I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity.

  Murray Rothbard

  Art, Civilization, Political

  Murray Newton Rothbard, Leonard P. Liggio (1975). “"Salutary neglect": the American colonies in the first half of the 18th century”, Crown

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• If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication.

  Kofi Annan

  Communication, Rights, Justice

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Feb 20, 2017

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