Fundamentals of Prosperity: What They Are and Whence They Come

“Statistics show that the greatest undeveloped resources in America are not our mines or our forests or our streams, but rather the human souls of the men and women who work for us.””

— Roger Ward Babson

“the fourth fundamental of prosperity is Coöperation.””

— Roger Ward Babson

“Our industrial system has resulted in almost stultifying men economically and making most of them economically non-productive. Why? I don’t know. I simply say it happens and the salvation of our industries depends on discovering something which will revive in man that desire to produce and that joy in production which he had instinctively when he was a small boy.””

— Roger Ward Babson

“Civilization is ultimately dependent on the ability of men to coöperate. The best barometer of civilization is the desire and ability of men to coöperate.””

— Roger Ward Babson

“In fact, statistics show us that the very things which most people think of as advantages, namely, wealth and “not having to work” are really obstacles which are rarely surmounted.””

— Roger Ward Babson

“This message is to beg of every reader to give more thought to developing production, to the reviving of a desire to produce and the realization of joy in production.””

— Roger Ward Babson