"To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort."

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Source : "Economics, Modern Business". Book by J. D. Vassie, ‎Paul Chadburn, p. 137, 1935.

Francois Quesnay

#Effort Quotes #Economic Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.”
“Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.”
“A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain?”
“All my life I have fought corruption.”
“When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.”
“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”

Source : "Fictional character: The Wizard". "Wicked", Broadway musical, 2003.
“To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.”

Source : Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.122, Columbia University Press
“I haven't had a worst business decision, because I believe all things work together for good.”

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