Best cost & labour Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most which he can for his exertions; some can get little or nothing, because they have not sufficient strength, knowledge or ingenuity; others get much, because they have, comparatively speaking, a monopoly of certain powers.”

Littles Matter Certain Cost Absolutes Sufficient Labour Comparison Monopoly Ingenuity Exertion

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.”

Men Want Cost Ordinary Aim Labour Utility Calculus

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value, because he is unwilling to think that he has been diligent in vain: what has been produced without toilsome efforts is considered with delight as a proof of vigorous faculties and fertile invention; and the last work, whatever it be, has necessarily most of the grace of novelty.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.”

Ifs World Firsts Has Beens Said Light Faces Heaven Work Race Air Cost Labor Good Things Bread Enjoyed Labour Sweat Almighty

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

“Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.”

Giving Values Produce Cost Labor Labour Quantity

Book:The Crown of Wild Olive

Source: The Crown of Wild Olive

“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves”

Source: The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

“The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.”

Ifs Men He Man Cost Understood Dear Labour Boast Authorship

Book:An essay on translated verse

Source: An essay on translated verse

“The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”

Men Want Mean Persons Real Use Values Trouble He Man Cost Equal Command Acquire Labour Quantity Commodity Toil

Book:The Wealth of Nations

Source: The Wealth of Nations

“The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created a moral universe where people who do not work to create profit are considered less than human, and used as surplus labour to drive down the cost of wages.”

People Humans Problem Used Order Universe Moral Cost Capitalism Sells Seven Profit Billions Labour Wages Surplus Globalisation

Author:Laurie Penny

“In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party believes in intervention to reduce social and economic costs and the other believes in market forces and letting things take their course.”

Believe Courses Force Social Difficult Differences Decision Party Economic Becoming Cost Tough Labour Intervention Difficult Times Tough Decisions

Author:Lucy Powell

“And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.”

World Long Whole Might Wish Journey Cost Lays Whole World Desert Accomplished Labour Barriers Peril My Journey

Author:C. S. Lewis

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