Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.

Money often costs too much.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That’s a statement in and of itself.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

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

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.