Indeed, Adam Smith takes some pages to point out how much we prosper as a result of wheat merchants speculating in the price of wheat.
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We'll recover from this recession, but it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that, when we all work together, when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interest to the wider set of obligations we have towards each other, that's when we succeed, that's when we prosper, and that's what is needed right now.
We have lost our sense of community and our understanding that by helping our neighbor prosper, we ourselves prosper.
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And it occurs to me that whenever any of us wish to assimilate why we suffer (or prosper), we must choose between these same two narratives.
If we want our real economy to grow and prosper, we need to lessen the ability of hedge funds to profit from market volatility.
Do we really believe that we can long prosper in an economy that devalues experience: in people, in design, and in business ethics?
We need growth that is balanced, because we will all prosper more when countries with large surpluses take action to boost demand at home.
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If we want to figure out how to prosper in the future we need to accept what the next major technological advance will be to transform the economy and absorb, adopt and it exploit it.
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And as I plan for my trip later this week to Asia, the whole focus is on how are we going to open up markets so that American businesses can prosper, and we can sell more goods and create more jobs here in the United States.
So if we want to help people not only get back on their feet today but prosper tomorrow, we need to take a rigorous new approach to higher education and technical training.
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America can once again prosper if we put our trust in first principles and let the free markets work.
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And so what that means, for example, is on issues of trade, part of the reason I'm traveling through Asia this week is I believe that the United States will grow and prosper if we are trading with Asia.
But as we continue to dig out from the worst recession in 80 years, our mission is to accelerate that recovery and encourage more rapid growth, so that businesses like this one can continue to prosper and we can get the millions of Americans who are still looking for jobs back to work.
They're not saying we got out from war and should prosper - but they got out and how do we stop it happening again.
The message was clear: Our company will prosper only if we add value to customers.
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We want the country to prosper, with effort being tightly aligned with reward.
Economically, through our free trade agreement and cooperation in science and technology, we have helped each other prosper and keep the pace with an ever-changing global marketplace.
If we want our companies to grow and prosper here in the U.S., and therefore create American jobs, then we need to have a more competitive corporate tax rate.
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The best defense, as in any other industry in which we allow markets relative freedom to prosper, may be caveat emptor.
We want China to succeed and prosper.
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We know medical device manufacturers will prosper under the new law -- the Affordable Care Act expands health insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans and these newly insured individuals will use products made by the medical device industry.
If we're serious about strengthening small businesses, if we're serious about creating a climate where our entrepreneurs can succeed, if we're serious about giving you the chance to prosper and grow, I believe, this administration firmly believes, that we need to pass health insurance reform in the United States of America.
And we should advance the truth that nations prosper when they allow women and girls to reach their full potential.
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So we have a profound interest in seeing Europe prosper.
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"We should be making the economy of New York prosper, " he said.
We created a foundation for those of us to prosper.
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He must take upon him this oath before Allah Most High, expecting his reward from Allah alone, and let the Muslim be confident, if there be to him no other good deed than this, nevertheless he will prosper in the day of judgment and we ask the Most High to extend the People of the Faith by the favor of their Lord.
We believe that the only way that our people can prosper is by cooperation and mutual respect to each other's past, present and future aspirations.
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