Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury Quotes

If you work, you should not be poor.

Confidence in the future -- Hope -- gives power to individuals and communities. It is that which enables the poor man to become rich, and the character of all legislative action is to be judged by its greater or lesser tendency to produce this effect.

I'm not a trust-fund child. I think my father's got a healthy work ethic, and therefore, I think it just came with the part. You've got to look after yourself.

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

The rich follow Wealth, and the Poor the Rich.

Wealth has no source but labor

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

We don't have entitlements as part of our family heritage. If you want nice things in life, if you want to get ahead, you have to earn it.

I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.

My dad would much rather work a couple jobs than be on government assistance.

I want to have a catalogue or a share in a company. I'm trying to take my family's name from lower-middle class to aristocracy. I have my sights set high.

My father had hammered into me, you want to look after your family, you want a nice house, and you want to be able to enjoy yourself, and you have to work very hard for those things. Don't think the world is going to come to you.

Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.

Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

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

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.