Calvin Coolidge Quotes

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

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.

I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-being - alternative, that is, to GDP, on which the world runs.

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

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

Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.

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

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

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

With proper governance, life will improve for all.

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.

Maybe it's because I look into the future professionally, but I see great possibilities for both humanity and our planet. I don't believe the thriving of one has to come at the expense of the other, and I'm deeply concerned to find out whether other people do think that.

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

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

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

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

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

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

The farmers of our country live better than did the kings and princes two hundred years ago … Liberty and labor have given us all.

America…could within twenty years bring us to a degree of development which Turks, left to themselves, would not be able to achieve in a century. It would make Turkey prosperous, rich and happy and turn Turks into a strong and civilized nation.