David Ricardo Quotes

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

You can’t beat this prosperity thing.

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.

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

There is a huge amount of wealth that's generated here in Silicon Valley.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

It is not the Federal government that makes prosperity in this country.

Economic success is the vital underpinning of every happy nation.

We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money - and most of them employ other people.

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

Profitability is where the country grows and everybody rises up with it.

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

I dream of India becoming a great economic superpower.

I never travel across this great nation without experiencing a feeling of gratitude and thanksgiving for all that we have and are. As I see its broad fruitful farms, its humming factories, its gleaming cities, certainly it is easy to realize that we have achieved unequaled material progress in this great country.

Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

Believe me, my sole purpose is to make as much money as possible; for after good health it is the best thing to have.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

Government should allow people to go out and do the things Americans have always done, create jobs and prosperity. And America's role in the world - the world is a safer and better place when America is the strongest country in the world.

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

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