Prosperity Sharing Quotes

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

If we win, everybody gets a piece of the pie.

I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.

We have to invest in people if we're going to have a country where every person can participate in our economy and share in our prosperity, and we have to break down the many barriers that stand in their way.

As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.

If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.

There is a theory that basically says that we can shred regulations and consumer protections and give more and more to the most, and somehow prosperity will trickle down. It hasn't worked. And I think that the fundamentals of the economy have to be measured by whether or not the middle class is getting a fair shake.

Of course we want prosperity, but we wish prosperity in such a way … so that everybody will get his share, and that it will not be confined to a few who monopolize the means of production or the means of transportation, and thus prevent that equality of distribution that we all like to see.

Prosperity isn't something that squirts out of rich people.

There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.

The time to give away money is when you make it.

Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people.

It was once supposed that only the rich were entitled to luxury. Now we are beginning to see that participation in the benefits of the machine civilization must be as widespread as possible if any group is to have prosperity.

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.