[on the theory of the firm] It is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There are respectable individuals, who from a just aversion to an accumulation of Public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. — Moby Copy Share Image
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Once you prove yourself, that you're a utility player, they're going to contact you and say, hey, yeah, we need you for… — Bob Bergen Copy Share Image
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility;… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In the 21st century, we must rethink broadband as a basic utility alongside gas, electric, and water. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
“Electrical utility companies put up power poles generally because it is cheaper than putting the power cables underground.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image