Increase Quote by Thomas Malthus Download Open image “Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.” — Thomas Malthus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Increase Ratios Subsistence
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do." — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no growth without change, and there is no change without loss. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“Thomas Malthus, was one of the first to analyze the relations between population growth and available resources. At the end of the eighteenth century,… — David Christian Copy Share Image
A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases,… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities,… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors.... — John B. Anderson Copy Share Image
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit. — Martha Roby Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease. — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image