"We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning."

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Source : 1946 Value and Capital (2nd edn).

Sir John Richard Hicks

#Week Quotes #Values Quotes

“Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.”

Source : Remark about his articles tracing the course of his illness in the NewYorker. Quoted in his obituary in The Scotsman, 29 Jan1996.
“Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.”
“I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.”
“The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.”
“I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.”
“Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.”
“I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.”
“In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar.”

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