Consumption Quote by Alfred Marshall Download Open image “Consumption may be regarded as negative production.” — Alfred Marshall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumption May Negative
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Negative thinking is always expensive -- dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically -- hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Everything we produce and consume has an impact on the environment, on social fabrics, and on the economy. This impact can be positive or… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods,"… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production. — Susan George Copy Share Image
What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
“(1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so. — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree. — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes… — Michael Dean Crapo Copy Share Image
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
