Essence Quote by Karl Marx

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken…

— Edward Carpenter

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production…

— Rudolf Hiferding

“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

Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.

— Rudolf Hiferding

Surplus money allows some people to exercise inordinate power over others: in the workplace; in politics; and above all in the capture, use and…

— George Monbiot

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.

— Robin Sharma

It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the…

— Benjamin Graham

The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our…

— Jacob Schiff

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

— James Buchan

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the…

— Karl Marx

People say values are expensive, but I say they create economic value.

— Ajay Piramal