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The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world.. all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus (1940-) Bangladeshi banker and economist
Money is not everything, but poverty is nothing.
Anonymous
The philosophy of the rich versus the philosophy of the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left, the poor spend their money and invest what is left
Jim Rohn, Author, Business Coach & Motivational Speaker
All programming for prosperity should be built on spiritual foundations. The first step is to enter the spiritual dimension, the alpha level, and determine what your purpose in life is. Find out what you are here for, what you are supposed to do with your life.
Jose Silva, (1914-1999) American parapsychologist and author
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
Josh Billings (1818-1885), American humor writer and lecturer
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen (1935) Academy Award-winning American film director, writer and actor
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
George Soros (1930-), American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
Stuart Wilde, English visionary
It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
Ray Kroc (1902-1984) American entrepreneur, (famous for significantly expanding the McDonald's Corporation)
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey, Talk show host and business woman
The purpose of prosperity is not self indulgence but difference making, The idea is to become a channel not a vessel. One can build a large house to be a dwelling for many or one can build it as an icon to self.
Phil Baker, Australian Pastor, author and leading speaker on personal development and business principles
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus (1940-) Bangladeshi banker and economist
Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87), American abolitionist and clergyman
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking; and not just money and things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking; and not just a lack of money and things.
Eric Butterworth (1916-2003), American theologian, philosopher, author and lecturer
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
Billy Sunday (1862–1935) American Revivalist
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
Samuel Johnson (1707-1784), English Poet
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish Playwright
I am having an out of money experience.
Author Unknown
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus (1913-1960) Algerian-French author and philosopher
Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed
Anonymous
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), American industrialist and philanthropist
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), American poet
When you realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it.
Catherine Ponder (1927-), author and pioneer of positive thinking
Priorities lead to prosperity.
Michelle Singletary, columnist for The Washington Post, author and TV host
The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I’m stunned by how many people are actually not rich.
David Bach (1936-) American writer
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used.
Milton Friedman (1912-2006) American economist and winner of Nobel Prize in Economics
It's hard to do it because you have got to look people in the eye and tell them they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's going to want to do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country (USA), you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period.
Bill O'Reilly (1949-), American TV host and author
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
Seneca (54BC-39AD), Ancient Roman Philosopher
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
Russell Simmons (1957-), American entrepreneur, co-founder of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
Oprah Winfrey, Talk show host and business woman
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus (1940-) Bangladeshi banker and economist
I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus (1940-) Bangladeshi banker and economist
I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus (1940-) Bangladeshi banker and economist
We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. People are saying, "I can't fill the hole with money. I can't fill it with alcohol, or drugs, or sex, so what do I need to fill it with?"
Dr. Muhammad Yunus (1940-) Bangladeshi banker and economist
Now we've got around seven thousand people working, and that to me is fantastically satisfying... more than dollars and cents, because I just believe that the greatest thing you can give someone is a job.
Janet Holmes à Court, (1943-) Australian businesswoman
A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
Ross Perot (1930-), American millionaire businessman
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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