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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau Walden · 1849

Labour Quotations

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“At the working man’s house hunger looks in but dares not enter.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?”

Bill Gates · An Open Letter to Hobbyists, 1976 · Primary source

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Labour

3 authors · 3 works · 6 themes · 15 tags
Authors
Benjamin Franklin American statesmanBill Gates American Entrepreneur and PhilanthropistHenry David Thoreau American writer and philosopher
Works
Poor Richard’s Almanack Benjamin Franklin · 1732-1758Walden Henry David Thoreau · 1849An Open Letter to Hobbyists Bill Gates · 1976
Themes
Life as the true costTime versus material valueWork as protection from want
Tags
Opportunity costTimeLabourConsumption
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