Subhash Chandra Quotes

As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

I think there is some kind of disillusionment in the West about the gains of modernity and of economic growth and it takes a form of skepticism about the gains of prosperity generally.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates.

While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer.

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'

By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.

Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.

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

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery.

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Growth and prosperity. These are the blocks with which we must build our welfare society.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches

Has our society reached the limit of its resources or the maximum of its wealth and prosperity?

In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

The object sought to be accomplished is the improvement of the condition of man. The mode by which it is to be accomplished is that of increasing his productive power. The more food a man can raise, the more and better food may he consume, and the larger will be the surplus that can be appropriated to the purchase of clothing, to the education of his family, to the enlargement of his house, or to the improvement of his machinery, and the greater will be the amount of leisure that can be appropriated to the improvement of his modes of thought.

The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It’s to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.