#prosper

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. ↗

— John Stossel

#discovery #fuel #innovation #own #people

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#did #gotten #had #idea #job

No, it is not a commonplace, sir! If up to now, for example, I have been told to 'love my neighbor,' and I did love him, what came of it?. . . What came of it was that I tore my caftan in two, shared it with my neighbor, and we were both left half naked, in accordance with the Russian proverb which says: If you chase several hares at once, you won't overtake any one of them. But science says: Love yourself before all, because everything in the world is based on self-interest. If you love only yourself, you will set your affairs up properly, and your caftan will also remain in one piece. And economic truth adds that the more properly arranged personal affairs and, so to speak, whole caftans there are in society, the firmer its foundations are and the better arranged its common cause. It follows that by acquiring for everyone, as it were, and working so that my neighbor will have something more than a torn caftan, not from private, isolated generosities now, but as a result of universal prosperity. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#prosperity #science #love

You don't believe it because you don't understand," he said hoarsely. "Prosper was different. He wasn't like other people. He might have hated me, but he loved me too. In his own way. He couldn't help it; not after raising me for all those years." When no one responded – when he saw nothing but expressions of disbelief on the faces around him – Cadel wailed, "He did! He did! I know he did! He only wanted to wreck my life because he wasn't a part of it!" And as sympathetic hands reached out towards him from every corner of the car, Cadel began to cry like someone whose heart was breaking. ↗

— Catherine Jinks

#prosper-english #life

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#cars #conscious #dumping #food #homes

Your mentality sets the stage for your prosperity. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#mentality #motivational-quotes #prosperity #success #successity

Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happiness #happy #inspirational #motivational #opulence

Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happiness #inspirational #joy #peace #pleasure

Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin ↗

— Hope Bradford

#goddess #gratitude #inspirational #kuanyin #law-of-attraction

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#bring #currency #economic #first #inflation