Firsts Quote by Victor Hugo

“two principal problems. First problem: To produce wealth. Second problem: To distribute it… England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth…

— Victor Hugo

“Wealth is not distributed by society: it is produced and traded by the people who create it. To distribute it, society would first have…

— Don Watkins

Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems.

— Eric Beinhocker

Wealth is created from creating value.

— Randy Gage

We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

— Henry Hazlitt

“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which specialists learn…

— Steven Pinker

“The author assumed that the main task of government is to distribute the collective wealth of society among its members, and that, in the…

— Roger Scruton

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law…

— Leland Stanford

We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such…

— Ludwig von Mises

the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

— Anita Roddick

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

— Brian Tracy

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

— Ludwig von Mises