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Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.

On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a higher way than in a consumer society, provided you had the right investments in the opportunity to flourish in less materialistic ways.

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.