The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share
To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is… — David Ricardo Copy Share
Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference… — David Ricardo Copy Share
During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high,… — David Ricardo Copy Share
If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of… — David Ricardo Copy Share
Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to… — David Ricardo Copy Share
The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase. — David Ricardo Copy Share
Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would… — David Ricardo Copy Share
If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can… — David Ricardo Copy Share
I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a… — David Ricardo Copy Share
A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its… — David Ricardo Copy Share
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price. — David Ricardo Copy Share
If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it… — David Ricardo Copy Share
As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as… — David Ricardo Copy Share
