Abundance of Resources Quotes

Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources. The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build, and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God speed.

I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

We live in a fantastically wealthy country. We don't have to worry about food. We don't have to worry about clothing. We don't have to worry about our safety. It's very easy for me to be an environmentalist. It's very easy for me to care about making sure that we protect the forests and the whales, and all that stuff.

When we grew up, Australia was the land of opportunity; it really was.

Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men; nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another.

Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

Want to know what God thinks of money? Look at the people he gave it to.

America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented.

And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.