Alfred Marshall Quotes

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.