It refers to the state of complete happiness and bliss. Prosperity is the state when you thrive and flourish. Success dances at your feet. Steady progress and hard work can lead to prosperity. Prosperity also includes wealth, but there are factors which are independent of wealth such as health and happiness. It is said that in the times of prosperity, friends are plenty, but in the times of adversity, friends desert you. Prosperity is something that we all aim for and forms the underlying of all our activities and efforts. Alex Campbell had once remarked, “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.”