David Ricardo Profit Quotations

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down....

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits;...