Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

Our nations workers are our nation’s greatest asset.

Labor is the only means of creating wealth.

Levying the taxes … does not impede the industry, or unnecessarily interfere with the liberty, of the citizen, promotes, not the preservation only, but the increase of the national wealth, and encourages a more active use of the individual faculties.

Wealth has no source but labor

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

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

We're going to make America rich again. We're going to make our country great again. And we need the rich in order to make the great.

The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be taken for granted. The real question concerns the proper means of achieving it. And in trying to answer this we must never lose sight of a few elementary truisms. We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that the dream of democratic socialism is inferior to the dream of democratic capitalism, and that the latter's superiority in actual practice is undeniable.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

Retirement is a waste of time. The economy needs you!

To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.

I want to bring wealth back to our country so we can afford them.

We have to make our country rich again before we can make it great again.

Labor humanizes, exalts.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.