Labour Value Quotes

It is labour, then, which puts the greatest part of value upon land, without which it would scarcely be worth anything

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

The Riches of a Country are to be valued by the Quantity of Labour its Inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the Quantity of Silver and Gold they possess

When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

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.

For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value.

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.

The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .

Labour is not a commodity.

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

Labour is priceless, not gold.

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.

Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts.