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Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes (63 quotes)
 | “No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.” ―Jean-Baptiste Say Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter II, p. 65 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832) |
| “The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.” ―Jean-Baptiste Say Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter II, p. 69 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832) |
| “Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.” ―Jean-Baptiste Say Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter III, p. 73 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832) |
| “Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.” ―Jean-Baptiste Say Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter III, p. 73 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832) |
| “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?” ―Jean-Baptiste Say Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter IV, p. 76 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832) |
| “The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.” ―Jean-Baptiste Say Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter VIII, p. 91 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832) |
| “To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.” ―Jean-Baptiste Say Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter VIII, p. 98 (See also: Adam Smith) - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832) |
| “A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity.” ―Jean-Baptiste Say Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter IX, p. 101 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832) |
| “The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.” ―Jean-Baptiste Say Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter IX, p. 104 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832) |
| “The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.” ―Jean-Baptiste Say Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter XV, p. 138 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832) |
| “I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.” ―Jean-Baptiste Say Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter XVI, p. 142 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832) |
| “The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet.” ―Jean-Baptiste Say Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter XVII, Digression, p. 159 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832) |
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Jean-Baptiste Say
Born: January 5, 1767
Died: November 15, 1832 (aged 65)
Bio: Jean-Baptiste Say was a French economist and businessman. He had classically liberal views and argued in favor of competition, free trade, and lifting restraints on business. He is best known due to Say's Law, which is named after him and at times credited to him, but while he discussed and popularized it, he did not originate it.
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