Nobler Life Quotes by Alfred Marshall

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Alfred Marshall has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts…
• I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that…
• Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
• The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes…
• The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings
• All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
• All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are…
• And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is…
• But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some…
• Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
• In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we…
• Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

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