David Ricardo Quotes

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• There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

  David Ricardo

  Business, Wages, Way

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1888). “Works: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”

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• Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

  David Ricardo

  Happiness, Happy, Country

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.474

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• It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported

  David Ricardo

  Country, Heart, Principles

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• There can be no rise in the value of labour
  without a fall of profits.

  David Ricardo

  Fall, Finance, Profit

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.31

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• The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

  David Ricardo

  Business, Wages, Farming

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.68

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• Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

  David Ricardo

  Wisdom, Competition, Wages

  1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

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• Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

  David Ricardo

  Stupidity, Made, Profit

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• The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

  David Ricardo

  Demand, Quantity, Values

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.114

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• Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

  David Ricardo

  Evil, Choices, Taxation

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.184

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• Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

  David Ricardo

  Paper, Economics, States

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.215, London, J. Murray

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• Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

  David Ricardo

  Tools, Materials

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.284

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• No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.

  David Ricardo

  Country, Commodity, Increase

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.72

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• The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

  David Ricardo

  Class, Community, Interest

  1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

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• Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

  David Ricardo

  Wisdom, Politics, Economy

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.86

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• A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

  David Ricardo

  Real, Wages, Reason

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.31, London, J. Murray

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• The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

  David Ricardo

  Bakers, Wheat, Fixed

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.21

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• The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

  David Ricardo

  Commodity, Increase, Difficulty

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.377

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• Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

  David Ricardo

  Two, Scarcity, Commodity

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.2

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• There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

  David Ricardo

  Errors, Supposing That, Consumption

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• The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

  David Ricardo

  Corn, Lasts, Difficulty

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.490

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• If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

  David Ricardo

  Beer, Bread, Malt

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.153

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• Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil

  David Ricardo

  Earth, Soil, Portions

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• The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

  David Ricardo

  Differences, Variation, Profit

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.32

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• Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

  David Ricardo

  Powerful, Discovery, Doubt

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.11

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• A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

  David Ricardo

  Wages, Variation, Causes

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.47

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