Joe Lonsdale Quotes

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

No man can become rich without himself enriching others

We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.

European economists and populations talk too much about redistribution within the member states and across the member states and are talking too little about how to create value in the future—to fortify our position in order to be successful in the future world.

There is a direct connection that cannot be severed between the diplomatic process and growth and prosperity.

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.

Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

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.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

Exchange is creation.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if you throw a lot away, the good stuff always comes back; nothing is lost.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.

... no one possesses the less because everyone possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me receives it without lessening me, as he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening me.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.