Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes
Top 31 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jean-Baptiste Say
Jean-Baptiste Say Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.
The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.
The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.
Capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.
The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.
Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.
The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.
A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.
To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.
But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?
One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.
Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?
I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.
When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?
Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.