Henry Charles Carey Quotes

Prosperity is just around the corner.

There's no future in being poor.

Confidence is the greatest economic stimulus there is.

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

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Opportunity today, prosperity tomorrow.

Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'

Our nation is defined by an unshakable belief that we, the people, have the ability to control our destiny. A belief that anyone can reach out and grab opportunity and create a more prosperous future for themselves, their children and their grandchildren.

We must learn this rule, which is true alike of rich and poor — that no man and no class of men ever rise to any permanent improvement in their condition of body or of mind except by relying upon their own personal efforts. The wealth with which the rich man is surrounded is constantly tempting him to forget the truth, ad you see in family after family men degenerating from the position of their fathers because they live sluggishly and enjoy what has been placed before them without appealing to their own exertions. The poor man, especially in these days, may have a similar temptation offered to him by legislation, but this same inexorable rule will work.

China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it better than their parents had had it. It was like being in America in the 1950's, with this deep optimism about the future because everything was getting better, and that fascinated me.

At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

First of all, from a spiritual perspective, I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about being successful or having money. The more successful you are, the more job opportunities you create for other people.

From where I sit now, I like the looks of tomorrow.

I believe the conditions are very favorable for Mexico to grow. I'm very optimistic.