Economy Quote by David Ricardo

LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its…

— David Ricardo

“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

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

— John Locke

Labour is not a commodity.

— Sharan Burrow

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

— Mahatma Gandhi

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

— David Hume

The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as…

— Karl Marx

Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce…

— Karl Marx

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

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production,…

— John Maynard Keynes

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

— Henry Ford