George Herbert Quotes

Prosperity comes slowly.

Economic prosperity is a great engine for change.

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

You can become rich by being cheap but the problem is that even though you are rich, you are still cheap

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

We're going to make America wealthy again, because if you don’t do that, it just - it sounds harsh to say, but we have to build up the wealth of our nation.

If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

"...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based on a constant flow of giving and recieving. In fact, if you look up affluence in the dictionary, you'll see its root is a Latin phrase meaning "to flow with abundance". So in order to be truly affluent, you must always let what you have recieved flow back into the world."

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.