Absolutely nothing Quote by Charles Dunoyer

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

“In practice nobody cares whether work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable.”

— George Orwell

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

— Anonymous

If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.

— Dalai Lama

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

— Woodrow Wilson

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation,…

— Thomas Hobbes

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

— William James

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

— Seth Godin

“But he could feel nothing but disdain for the artificial class of the merchant, who sucks up his living through buying and selling things…

— Trevanian

“Things cultivated over such a long time don't just vanish into nothingness.”

— Haruki Murakami

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

— Quintilian