David Ricardo Quotes

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.

David Ricardo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 18, 1772 - September 11, 1823

Topics

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Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.

Jim Bridenstine

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There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.

Jessica Valenti

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I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.

John Elkann

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If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

John Mulaney

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It really is systematic oppression that is so deeply ingrained into the very fabric of American society... Shedding a light on it, in whatever way possible, is the only way to create change.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

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I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, 'It ain't country anymore,' but I don't get into that whole deal.

Luke Bryan

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I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

Joss Whedon

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We write and write and write until we think, 'If we have to shoot this script, we'll be happy, and it's going to be a great movie.' I meet with all the actors two weeks before, and I ask them, 'What lines don't work? What is uncomfortable for you? What jokes do you think aren't good? If you're not getting it, here's what the joke is.' You fix it.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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Business school professors don't take selling seriously because they don't know how to sell. It's easy to talk about business theory and production time and just-in-time development. Selling is much more difficult.

Chris Gardner

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I hate to shop.

Alicia Silverstone

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The truth is overrated.

Paul Westerberg

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