Asia Quote by Michael Hudson

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

— Henry George

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Federal Reserve's objectives of maximum employment and price stability do not, by themselves, ensure a strong pace of economic growth or an improvement…

— Janet Yellen

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on…

— Anonymous

“Today this key component of revolution—the gap between what people want, and indeed expect, and what they get—is being played out in the United…

— Chris Hedges

“Even Karl Marx, who spent more than three decades living in Victorian England, acknowledged the rise in British workers' living standards between the 1840s…

— Thomas Sowell

Being broke and being in the street does not mean that you're keeping it real. I think that everybody that lives in a non-wealthy…

— Xzibit

“The UK office for National Statistics has identified the things that matter most for happiness as "health, relationships, work, and the environment" - a…

— Robert Skidelsky

“THERE ARE HUGE DIFFERENCES in living standards around the world. Even the poorest citizens of the United States have incomes and access to health…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Setting our living standards and expectations based on the status of others is like wishing that apples were onions.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA