Quantity Quotes

520 quotes by 425 authors

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable. — Ludwig von Mises
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. — Gregory Bateson
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. — Henri Matisse
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they… — Andrew Solomon
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,… — John Maynard Keynes
Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate… — Carl Friedrich von Rumohr
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness… — Arthur Balfour
There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine… — Alan Turing
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. — Lord Dunsany
Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity. — Claudius
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in… — Milton Friedman
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods. — David Ricardo
The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work — Brian Tracy
I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased… — Sydney Brenner
The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to… — Henry Hazlitt
So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of… — Paul Krugman
After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential. — Leonhard Euler
A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality. — An Na
I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which… — Eva Hesse
Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it. — Suzan-Lori Parks

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