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Prosperity is about flourishing

• Prosperity: The state of being successful and having a lot of money. Cambridge Dictionary
• Prosperity: A successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune. Dictionary.com
• Wealth,  Abundance,  True wealth,  Prosperity consciousness,  Gratitude,  Success

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What is the good life but health, joy and prosperity?

• What is the ‘good life’ but peace, joy, health, and prosperity? Linda Fifer Ralphs
• When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness…all the good things. Maya Angelou
• Only when man’s life comes to end in prosperity can one call that man happy. Aeschylus
• Health,  Joy

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Prosperity is your divine right

• It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.  Joel Osteen
• When you realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it. Catherine Ponder

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Prosper by harnessing the power of love …

• Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective – life. Ogwo David Emenike
• Love

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… by loving yourself and taking care of yourself

• Good health begins with loving the self. So do prosperity and love and creative self- expressions. Louise L. Hay
• The more I take care of myself, the more prosperous I am. Cheryl Richardson
• Self-love

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… by working at what you love

• If a man prospers, surely this is a devotion to what he loves. The rewards of prosperity means you have more time to achieve the real rewards of life; whatever you like becomes yours. Mary Jeannette Demoret
• In the broader sense, work is the means to achieve happiness, prosperity. and salvation. When work and duty and joy are commingled, then man is at his best. Richard Clarke
• One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which they like best. Everyone should find his or her particular niche in the world’s work, where both material prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found. Napoleon Hill
• Passion precedes prosperity. Andrew Hildreth
• The person who takes a resolution and then works diligently towards it’s fulfillment is helped and blessed by gods. He gets easy access to all the means necessary for success, growth and prosperity. Atharva
• Do what you love

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Prosper by bringing about periods of prolonged  peace

• If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. Winston Churchill
• Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.  The Dalai Lama
• Inner peace

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Prosper by cultivating inner calmness

• It is because of their tranquil thoughts that creatures go to prosperity. Gautama Buddha
• Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want. Wayne Dyer
• Calmness

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Prosper by cultivating the right attitude

• The word prosperity comes from the Latin root which literally translates “according to hope” or “to go forward hopefully.” Thus it is not so much a condition in life as it is an attitude toward life. The truly prosperous person is one who is experiencing what Jesus referred to as the life more abundant. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking—not just money or things.  Poverty is a way of living and thinking—not just a lack of money or things.  Considered in the broadest sense, prosperity is “spiritual well-being.” This involves the whole experience of healing life, satisfying love, abiding peace and harmony … a whole creature in a whole universe.  Eric Butterworth
• Attitude

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Prosper by cultivating a prosperity consciousness …

• If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be. Robert Collier
• If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it. Catherine Ponder
• Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Eric Butterworth
• Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. Jerry Gellis
• The journey to financial freedom starts the minute you decide you were destined for prosperity, not scarcity – for abundance, not lack. Isn’t there a part of you that has always known that? Can you see yourself living a bounteous life – a life of more than enough? It only takes one minute to decide. Decide now. Mark Victor Hansen
• The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it. Eric Butterworth
• The starting point of financial independence is the development of what Napoleon Hill called a prosperity consciousness. You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you can become rich in your reality. Brian Tracy
• Want to change your circumstances? Develop the necessary consciousness. A successful person has a success consciousness. A wealthy person has developed a prosperity consciousness, and his thoughts are on abundance, success and prosperity. John Kehoe

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… by building a strong sense of inner worth …

• The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self- esteem. Believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it. Jerry Gillies
• Ultimate prosperity is one’s value within. It takes a person of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is one’s permission to achieve whatever one desires. Criss Jami
• Self-worth,  The treasure within

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… by harnessing the power of appreciation

• There cannot be a sense of abundance or the experience of prosperity without appreciation. You cannot find beauty unless you appreciate beauty. You cannot find friendship unless you appreciate others. You cannot find love unless you appreciate loving and being loved. If you wish abundance, appreciate life. William R. Miller
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… by being unattached to needing wealth

• Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it. Wayne Dyer

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Prosper by serving others

• When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity. Wayne Dyer
• The greatest life one can have is of service. Give joy, happiness, bliss, laughter, wisdom, prosperity, love & light to others. By doing so, you tap into the Infinite Source within ensuring that you will never have to do without these “treasures” yourself! Lateef Warnick
• The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become. William Arthur Ward
• The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love. Charles Fillmore
• To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently and far-sightedly for the good of others, they achieve their own prosperity, too. Barbara Ward
• 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. Wayne Dyer
• When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity. Wayne Dyer
• Service,  Making a difference

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Prosper by making others prosperous

• Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. Earl Nightingale
• No one can become rich without enriching others. Anyone who adds to prosperity must prosper in turn. G. Alexander Orndorff

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Prosper by making an effort

• Much effort, much prosperity. Euripides
• Effort

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Prosper by developing your potential

• The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper. Socrates
• Potential

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Prosper by constantly learning

• Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. Aristotle
• Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest. Paul Zane Pilzer
• If you want one year of prosperity, plant corn. If you want ten years of prosperity, plant trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, educate people
• Learning

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Prosper by taking charge of your mind

• There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind. Eric Butterworth

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Prosper through harnessing the power of thought and imagination

• All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination. Ruth Ross
• There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Imagination,  Ideas,  Imagination

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Prosper by harnessing the power of ideas and innovation

• Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people’s lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful organizations and keep them healthy and prosperous. Without the ability to get new ideas, an organization stagnates and declines and will eventually be eliminated by competitors who do have fresh ideas. Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder
• Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. Michael Porter
• We’ve reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy. Gary Hamel
• Ideas,  Innovation

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Prosper by wanting and appreciating what you have

• Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. Abert F. Geoffrey
• Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally “count our blessings,” give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have. Shakti Gawain
• Appreciation,  Gratitude

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Prosper by creating a vision of your ideal life

• If you want to access your full range of power, then commit to dreaming about your ideal life. Your subconscious and articulated desires are veins of gold that lead to whatever you want to call prosperity. Danielle LaPorte
• Vision

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Prosper by getting your life on purpose

• 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. Wayne Dyer
• Purpose

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Prosper by harnessing the power of confidence

• True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. Benjamin Burt
• Self-confidence

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Prosper by regularly saving

• On the first day of every week each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper. Corinthians 16:2
• Saving

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Prosper by attaining harmony between your inner and outer being

• One is not rightly conditioned until one is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the person with his or her surroundings. James Allen
• Harmony

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Prosper by focusing on process, not outcome

• How do you surrender? Just let go! Don’t strain to achieve; instead, enjoy the process of the work that you are doing. The results will come independent of your striving for them. When your mind is on the result rather than what you are doing, you create inner discord that blocks any and all possibilities for miracles to show up. Prosperity is about process, not outcome. Purpose is about loving and giving.  Wayne Dyer
• Life is a process

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Feel appreciation for those who provide examples of prosperity …

• Feel appreciation for those who provide examples of Well-Being. How would you know that prosperity was possible if there wasn’t some evidence of prosperity around you? It’s all part of this contrast that helps you to sharpen your desire. Abraham-Hicks

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… for true prosperity adds to the richness of all

• The old thought that one cannot be rich except at the expense of his neighbor, must pass away. True prosperity adds to the richness of the whole world, such as that of the man who makes two trees grow where only one grew before. The parasitical belief in prosperity as coming by the sacrifices of others has no place in the mind that thinks true. “My benefit is your benefit, your success is my success,” should be the basis of all our wealth. Anne Rix Miltz
• By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others. Frederic Bastiat

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Beware of prosperity for it can be an even greater test of character than adversity …

• A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. Julius Charles Hare
• Prosperity is as great a trial of the heart as adversity. Mankind are as naturally disposed to abuse the smiles, as the frowns of divine providence. Nathanael Emmons
• As happy, till his life have run its course, and reached its goal. An evil spirit’s gift in shortest time has oft laid low the state of one full rich in great prosperity, when the change comes, and so the Gods appoint. Sophocles
• Beware the serpent, slyly hid, which stings the soul with poison of Prosperity. Edward Robeson Taylor
• Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into one’s hands just to see how miserable one can make oneself with them. Don Marquis
• Great increase of prosperity sometimes weakens the supports of it. Edward Counsel
• It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. Samuel Johnson
• Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools. Wellins Calcott
• Prosperity is a more refined and severer test of character than adversity, as one hour of summer sunshine produces greater corruption than the longest winter day. Eliza Cook
• Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man. Hooker
• Character,  Adversity

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Prolonged prosperity can be hard to endure …

• Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity. John Keats
• The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.  Alan Gregg
• Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperityJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.  Kahlil Gibran
• Men can bear all things except good days. Dutch Proverb

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… leading to cravings for more and more …

• It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in. Henry Ward Beecher
• Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, ‘Let no more riches enter!’ Aeschylus

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… sometimes even leading to destruction

• It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins. Norman Macdonald
• It is an ironic fact that while half the world’s population is dying as a result of diseases of poverty (largely starvation and infection) the other half is succumbing to diseases of affluence. Malcolm Carruthers

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Prosperity runs the risk of destroying your virtues …

• Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Francis Bacon
• Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue. Friedrich von Schille
• Prosperity corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. Rousseau
• Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. Tacitus
• Virtue,  Vice

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… especially the virtue of humility

• It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble. Jane Austen
• Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear. Hosea Ballou
• Humility

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For prosperity to be safe it must be combined with virtue

• Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue. Aristotle
• Only when man’s life comes to end in prosperity can one call that man happy. Aeschylus
• Virtue

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For prosperity to be safe, it must be used, not worshipped

• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge
• The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It’s to allow us to pursue “the better angels,” to give us time to think and grow. George H.W. Bush

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For prosperity to be safe, it must be shared with others

• Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people. Ernest Holme

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For prosperity to be safe, moderation is needed

• Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity. Periander
• Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity. Cicero
• The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity. Seneca
• Moderation

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For prosperity to be safe, it should not lessen your generosity

• As a crowded stomach retards digestion, so does prosperity retard charity. William Scott Downey
• Pearls around the neck – stones upon the heart. Hanan J. Ayalti
• Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity. Henry Ward Beecher
• Generosity

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For prosperity to be safe, it is best mixed with a little adversity …

• Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Francis Bacon
• Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. Hosea Ballou
• Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. Joseph Addison
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… for adversity is necessary for prosperity to be fully appreciated …

• A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity ’til he has tasted adversity. Sa’di
• He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. Henry Fielding
• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Anne Bradstreet

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… and adversity often reveals gifts and talents that prosperity hides

• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. Horace
• Affliction is the good man’s shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. Edward Young
• Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. Horatius
• Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. Charles H. Spurgeon
• Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us. Bruce Lee
• There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Washington Irving

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In many ways, adversity is more enriching than prosperity

• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. Victor Marie Hugo
• Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. Samuel Butler
• Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. Billy Graham
• Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. William Hazlitt
• Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost. Louisa May Alcott
• Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great. Rose F. Kennedy

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Avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity

• Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. Socrates
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Be thankful in both times of prosperity and adversity

• Do not be like those who honor their gods in prosperity and curse them in adversity. Rather, in pleasure or in pain, give thanks. Mekhilta

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In times of prosperity, put some away

• Take care to be an economist in prosperity: there is no fear of your being one in adversity. Johann Zimmermann
• When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. Confucius

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Don’t allow prosperity to create a spiritual hole

• We’ve got the most prosperous culture in human history and we’ve also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. People are saying, “I can’t fill the hole with money.  I can’t fill it with alcohol, or drugs, or sex, so what do I need to fill it with?”  Mark Victor Hansen

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Recognise prosperity is never secure

• Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest. Luc De Clapiers, Marquis De Vauvenargues
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In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends

• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. John Churton Collins
• Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. Plutarch
• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. Publilius Syrus
• Prosperity makes few friends. Luc De Clapiers
• Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. Vauvenargues
• 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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Don’t let your prosperity to be at the earth’s expense

• Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet’s irreplaceable capital. Aldous Huxley
• To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. Theodore Roosevelt
• We face the question whether a still higher “standard of living” is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. Aldo Leopold

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Prosperity and the economy

• It’s all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web. George Eliot
• Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity. Thomas H. Kean
• No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity. Rush Limbaugh
• Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for.
• The increase of a great number of citizens in prosperity is a necessary element to the security, and even to the existence, of a civilized people. Buret
• No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington
• To seek “causes” of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Jane Jacobs
• You do not need to be affected by the economy or man-made conditions. You can create your own personal economic environment of prosperity. If you are willing to listen to and take action on your inner guidance, you will do well no matter what the economy around you is doing. Sanaya Roman

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Business and prosperity

• Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for.
• We’ve reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy. Gary Hamel

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• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man. Mark Twain
• The reason American cities are prosperous is that there is no place for people to sit down. Alfred J. Talley
• When things go well, you should be suspicious. When things go exceptionally well, start sniffing for the dog crap on the bottom of your shoe. Rob Thurman
• Don’t knock coronaries – they’re all we women have got to guarantee us a prosperous and exciting middle age.  Malcolm Bradbury
• Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper our friends are true and our happiness is assured.  Ambrose Bierce
• I’ll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it and that’s more than I can say for prosperity.  Frank …Kin’ Hubbard
• In times of prosperity friends will be plenty in times of adversity not one in twenty.  English proverb
• Prosperity: Something that businessman create for politicians to take the credit for.
• The reason American cities are prosperous is that there is no place for people to sit down. Alfred J. Talley
• What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered someone else would do it for you.  Nora Ephron

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