People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

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

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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 hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

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.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

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.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

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

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

I don’t need to publish to make a living.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

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.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

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

I want to retire and want to be able to live out my days financially secure. That’s what everyone wants.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

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.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.