Ok, I will have to digress on many points coldfirestone put as principles to success or to richer and prosperous nation. First of all, being in America and having watched and learnt capitalism first hand, I will have to disagree on Ethics, Integrity, Responsibility, Respect to the right of other citizens. A country that produces 30% of world's pollution, a country with the biggest fast food chain which has tremendously undertaken the task to deforest South American rain forest to create pasture land for cows to produce cheap beef definitely cannot have proper Ethics, Integrity, Responsibility, Respect to the laws and rules and definitely no Respect to the rights of other citizens. Rich, capitalistic countries ship their garbage to be dumped on other poor countries posing health hazards to the citizens of those countries and polluting their environment. And the very countries that coldfirestone mentioned like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and let me add USA, were created following probably the greatest human rights abuse in human history. The natives of these lands if still alive after decades and decades of genocide, are forced to live in small reserves today. And these capitalist countries do not mind in fact activate importing cheap goods from countries where human rights are abused, child labor is rampant, working conditions are worse. So yes, the rich countries do not become rich because of the first five principles put forth here. But I have to agree on the last 4 principles. Mainly, Work loving. Rich countries are so driven by corporate culture that their citizens live to work and not the other way around. 55 to 60 hours are minimum with barely 2 weeks of vacation time if you want to work and survive in a corporate. Basically, the citizens of rich countries closely resemble robots. And so much precedence and value given to money and the lack of time for yourself or to your family could be the cause for broken families and deteroting societal values. Strive for saving & investment, Will of super action and Punctuality are just parts of capitalism.