David Ricardo Quotes

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined.

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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Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

Jim Leach

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Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

Jenna Dewan

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What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

John Howe

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My parents had no interest in spending a lot of time with me. They were busy doing what they were doing, but they were not obnoxious. They were fabulous.

Angela Bowie

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An actor gets to take a nap, but the director is working hard from dawn till midnight. I'm kind of lazy.

Michael Horse

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I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from £34,000 a year to £16,000.

Tony Bradman

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People sometimes ask me to name the greatest coach in NFL history. George Halas may have set the standard, but Don Shula has won more games than anyone, and he has done it in the most competitive era. He had an incomparable ability to evaluate players, to motivate them, and to teach them the game of football.

Marv Levy

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Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

Lucas Papademos

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Even in Hollywood, there are personal descents that evoke only sad shakes of the head, especially where there's sheer, unassailable talent in the mix.

Chris Connelly

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Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.

Chris Kyle

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I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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I'm not saying the U.S. system is poor at all, because I learned a lot from it. There's a lot of great coaches and good things I did there as well.

Christian Pulisic

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