Labour Quote by William Stanley Jevons Download Open image “Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.” — William Stanley Jevons ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Labour
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“The more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.” — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day,or each week… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is,… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate,… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege,… — Anonymous Copy Share
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share
It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely… — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day." — Alexander Hume Copy Share Image
If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name, when slavery flaps her wing, ... Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Hell… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
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