Class Quote by Thomas Malthus

“It is not from their intrinsic nature that goods gain the character of economic goods, but through their relation to men and through their…

— Sandye Gloria-Palermo

Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and…

— Adam Smith

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the…

— Libreria Editrice Vaticana

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them…

— Woodrow Wilson

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour…

— Albert Einstein

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not…

— David Ricardo

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance…

— Plato

By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the…

— Adam Smith