John H. Clapham Quotes

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.

Economic prosperity is a great engine for change.

Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.

One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or the U.S., if your country doesn't grow, you're in trouble. But we all know that beyond a certain level of material need, further material acquisition doesn't make people happier.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Health is the core of human development.

We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.

We are living in a Golden Age, the most gilded Golden Age of human history—not only of past history, but of future history.

Bend everything toward improving the standard of living of the people.

More people in more countries, both developing and developed, have experienced larger increases in living standards than in any prior fifty year period.

Prosperity comes slowly.

Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven, however. My message certainly is not one of complacency. The ultimate resource is people — especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty — who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit and inevitably benefit the rest of us as well.

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Growth and prosperity. These are the blocks with which we must build our welfare society.

I think there is some kind of disillusionment in the West about the gains of modernity and of economic growth and it takes a form of skepticism about the gains of prosperity generally.

If Dubai could be built over mere sand and is one of the richest countries in the world today - why not make the most of the country we've been blessed with?

It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.