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

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

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

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

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

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Money ain’t everything.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Hunger is the best pickle.

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.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

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.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

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

The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment… the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

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

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 long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

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

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.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

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

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

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.‘

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

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.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

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.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

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

It’s time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process – and the process toward wealth and freedom. ‚Freedom from Bad Debt‘ can get you started.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

I and haven’t been unemployed for 20 years. I’m an exception to the rule.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

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.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.