#quantity

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#ask #commitment #create #culture #emphasize

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. ↗

— David Ricardo

#arbitrary #bestowed #capital #commodities #dependent

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Lord Henry Wotton. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#capitalism #material #money #possessions #priorities

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ↗

— Mark Twain

#i #make #me #mind #much

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. ↗

— William Allen White

#common man #generally #grafted #greatness #man

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#hands #least #monetary #money #over

It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#comes #dealing #difficult #get #give

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. ↗

— Plato

#all things #anything #each #ease #else

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods. ↗

— David Ricardo

#compared #contrary #exchange #gold #goods

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed. ↗

— David Ricardo

#before #circulating #could #lost #manner