#pros

People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success. ↗

— Jerry Gillies

#believe #even #eventually #every #lesson

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#abject #billions #countries #developing #hope

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#crime #especially #extinguish #happens #help

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#blessing #new #old #old testament #prosperity

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#desires #follow #greed #lust #preserved

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#detached #evolution #living #materialistic #nature

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#breaking #get #i #law #learned

One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#big #challenges #demonstrate #economic #economic prosperity

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#appreciation #attorney #both #deep #defense