a rising tide lifts all boats

English

Alternative forms
  • a rising tide floats all boats

Proverb

a rising tide lifts all boats

  1. A truly good outcome benefits all.
    • 2000, David Reynolds, chapter 17, in One World Divisible, W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page 653:
      Whereas in the 1960s, incomes rose as the economy grew—to use President Kennedy's phrase, “a rising tide lifts all the boats”—this no longer applied in the 1980s.

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