Class Quote by David Ricardo

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the…

— Charles Babbage

But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the…

— David Ricardo

The actual division of labor must be reflected in the division of the rewards (and prices, which is the way the consumer gets rewarded).

— Mariana Mazzucato

“The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of…

— Albert Einstein

“To maximise output, every organisation will strive to obtain its necessary raw materials, labour and machinery at the lowest possible cost and combine them…

— Alain de Botton

As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as…

— David Ricardo

“The progressive tendency of the general rate of profit to fall is, therefore, just an expression peculiar to the capitalist mode of production of…

— Karl Marx

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can…

— David Ricardo

The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and…

— David Boaz

“Production is profit; and profit is production. They are not merely related; they are the same thing. When a man plants potatoes, if he…

— Isabel Paterson

“There has always been a temptation to classify economic goods in clearly defined groups, about which a number of short and sharp propositions could…

— Alfred Marshall

There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most which he…

— William Stanley Jevons