Barack Obama Quotes

Our prosperity provides a foundation for our power. It pays for our military. It underwrites our diplomacy.

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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.

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.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

The Riches or Strength of a Nation consists in the Number of its Inhabitants

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

We are not facing great economic difficulties. The Indonesian people are faring reasonably well - just compare us to India or some other countries.

As a nation, America is at its best when we are thinking and making things and exporting to the world.

A strong economy is the source of national strength.

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.

In all the thrashing about that results from our dwindling gold reserves, it's about time that this country and other countries get some perspective on the situation. The day this country is out of the stuff, that day gold becomes what it's worth as a metal and no longer will have much significance as a monetary measurement. It isn't the gold we have that makes this nation rich. It's what we make, our knowhow, our productivity. So long as this country produces more and better, the world will continue to want what we make.

I believe as well that - that American strength is - is essential economic strength, family and value strength, military strength is essential for our own good that these things not only help secure peace for other people but preserve peace for us and - and promise greater prosperity for America.

The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all. The preservation of the public credit and the resumption of specie payments, so successfully attained by the Administration of my predecessors, have enabled our people to secure the blessings which the seasons brought.

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure.

The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement.

There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.