Neal Stephenson Quotes

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

For a number of years, I've wondered if people like us are the forgotten. We're not the poor, and we're not the rich. We're not the very young or the aged. We're the average American family.

People today expect a good economy the same way a they expect sunshine and good air.

The health of a nation is not just about its consumption expenditures …. one of the things that makes America such a great nation, and why so many people aspire to this American ideal of middle-class security, is that it's about more than that. It's about more than how much you can purchase with the dollar. It's about this feeling of security and about being able to give your kids a better life than you had. And that is really the foundation—one of the major founding principles of our country

I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.

I grew up in the middle class.

My mother was from a middle-class background.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Don’t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true, but everything else being equal, it’s a lovely thing to have around the house.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

I am hard-core middle class.