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You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

Although everyone does benefit from lower-priced goods and services, people also care greatly about the chance to be productively employed and the quality of their work. Declining employment opportunities feel real and immediate; the rise in real incomes brought by lower prices does not.

Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve.

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.