Economic Value Quotes

If a man has not made a million dollars by the time he is 40, he is not worth much.

People are often reproached because their desires are directed mainly to money and they are fonder of it than of anything else. Yet it is natural and even inevitable …. every other blessing can satisfy only one desire and one need; for instance, food is good only to the hungry, wine only for the healthy, medicine for the sick, a fur coat for winter, women for youth, and so on... Money alone is the absolutely good thing because it meets not merely one need in concreto, but needs generally in abstracto.

A drop of oil is worth a drop of blood.

People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine and nothing about economics unhesi.

There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.

Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Our nations workers are our nation’s greatest asset.

Such forms of wealth as gold, silver, precious stones are only minerals and products having an exchange value. It is social effort, the search for profit and the use of tools that cause the increase or decrease of the quantity of precious metals in circulation and hence, the real wealth of a King

As for Marx, his economic value, apart from occasional … flashes of insight, is nil.

Everything in Rome has its price.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

Every thing receives a value from its use, and the Value is raised [or lowered], according to its Quality, Quantity and Demand.

Gold is the corpse of value.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.

In any economy, the entire population is supported by the part of it that is working. All other things being equal, it thus follows that the most attractive acquisition a society can have is a young adult, whose childhood and education has already been paid for, but whose entire working life still lies ahead.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

It is labour, then, which puts the greatest part of value upon land, without which it would scarcely be worth anything

I believe we live in a positive sum world and wealth isn't just taken or moved around; it's mostly created.