Richard Cantillon quotes

Richard Cantillon quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.”
-- Richard Cantillon

Source : 1730-4 Essay on the Nature of Trade.

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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”
“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”
“As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.”
“it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it”
“My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.”
“Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.”
“The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.”

Source : "Q&A: Packers' Aaron Rodgers talks yoga, social media, Super Bowls". Interview with Mike Vandermause, www.usatoday.com. June 12, 2014.
“Good looks only take you so far. You don't have to be the best looking guy.”
“Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.”
“If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.”

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