The Love For Money Is Only One

The Price Of Every Thing Rises And Falls From Time To Time And Place To Place; And With Every Such Change The Purchasing Power Of Money Changes So Far As That Thing Goes.

All Labour Is Directed Towards Producing Some Effect.

We Might As Well Reasonably Dispute Whether It Is The Upper Or The Under Blade Of A Pair Of Scissors That Cuts A Piece Of Paper, As Whether Value Is Governed By Demand Or Supply.

Capital Is That Part Of Wealth Which Is Devoted To Obtaining Further Wealth.

I Admit That These Terms And The Diagrams Connected With Them Repel Some Readers, And Fill Others With The Vain Imagination That They Have Mastered Difficult Economics Problems, When Really They Have Done Little More Than Learn The Language In Which Parts Of Those Problems Can Be Expressed, And The Machinery By Which They Can Be Handled. When The Actual Conditions Of Particular Problems Have Not Been Studied, Such Knowledge Is Little Better Than A Derrick For Sinking Oil-wells Erected Where There Are No Oil-bearing Strata.