#prosperity

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift. ↗

— Paul Getty

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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. ↗

— Paul Getty

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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#broad #century #class #companies #created

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

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

— David Hare

#deep #high #minds #ones #prosperity

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained. ↗

— Derrick A. Bell

#equality #ethics #injustice #meritocracy #prosperity

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#adversity #great #greater #prosperity

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#before #bound #community #each #individual

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#european #future #growth #mission #now