Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Sorry, Giving, Done

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.98

• What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Thinking, Hands, Views

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.161

• But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial?

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Character, Home, Self

  Jean Baptiste Say (1834). “A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.344

• The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Yield, Giving, Occupation

  Jean Baptiste Say (1854). “A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth”, p.481

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