All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned …

- Alfred Marshall

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 …

- Alfred Marshall

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

- Alfred Marshall

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

- Alfred Marshall

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a…

- Alfred Marshall

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

- Alfred Marshall

The love for money is only one among many.

- Alfred Marshall

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

- Alfred Marshall

We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is …

- Alfred Marshall