Both Uses of
prosperous
in
Outliers
- "To me the greatest wonder in this was not the mere quantity of garments, although that was a miracle in itself," Borgenicht would write years later, after he became a prosperous manufacturer of women's and children's clothing, "but the fact that in America even poor people could save all the dreary, time-consuming labor of making their own clothes simply by going into a store and walking out with what they needed."
Chpt 5prosperous = financially successful
- The sons and the father become prosperous.
Chpt 5 *
Definition:
successful or good -- especially with regard to finances or wealth