financial progress Quotes

It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.

Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket

Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.

We provide our citizens upward mobility through economic opportunity.

It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do."

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.

I went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.

India is a 2 trillion dollar economy today. Can we not dream of an India with a 20 trillion dollar economy?

The percentage of American 30-year-olds in 1970 who were earning more than their parents had earned at 30? Ninety-two percent. Isn’t that amazing? That, in a nutshell, is what we call the American Dream. And what’s the percentage now? It’s somewhere around 50 percent

We understand that most of the middle class doesn't know what to do, doesn't feel like they have economic progress, and [Hillary Clinton] goes, "OK, I realize that's my top agenda item. That's the thing I need to do."

If you listen to the news, read the news, you'd think we were still in a recession. Well, we're not in a recession. We've had growth; people need to know that. They need to be more upbeat, more positive.

The thing about innovation in financial markets is they're always building on what has come before. It's a natural process.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

Our problem number 1, 2 and 3 is economic development.

I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise.

Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

Our fundraising went up about a thousand percent and that's largely been sustained.

If you're trying to diet, what do you do? You grab your two friends and say, 'We're going to the gym; let's do this together.' Money shouldn't be any different. If you're trying to make progress, if you're trying to save more, we really need to be able to get support.

We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction-creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically. Always ask yourself, what can I improve? Who else can I talk to? Where else can I look?