Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
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In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
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No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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A great stock, though with small profits, generally increases faster than a small stock with great profits. Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little.
The great affair, we always find, is to get money.
Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it.
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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money,but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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