Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.

Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

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

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

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

The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'

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

Without labor nothing prospers.

We work. You don't come here to take life easy. And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

The wealth of a country is in its working people.

The Mexicans who inhabit this wide region, some because they were born therein, others because since the treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo, they have been attracted to its soil by the soft influence of wise laws and the advantages of a free government, paying little attention to the reasoning of politics, are honorably and exclusively dedicated to the exercise of industry, guided by that instinct which leads the good man to comprehend, as uncontradictory truth, that only in the reign of peace can he enjoy, without inquietude, the fruit of his labor.

The inland trade is almost perfectly free. This freedom of interior commerce. .. is perhaps one of the principal causes of the prosperity of Great Britain.

We’re the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

Wealth has no source but labor