Jean-Baptiste Say
Known for Say's Law, which states that supply creates its own demand.
Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Say
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to depress it.
Products are paid for with products.
It is worthwhile to remark, that a product is no sooner created, than it, from that instant, affords a market for other products to the full extent of its own value.
The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.
The encouragement of consumption is no benefit to commerce; for the difficulty lies in supplying the means, not in stimulating the desire of consumption.
The value of products is the measure of the value of the productive services.
The demand for products is not a demand for money, but a demand for products.
The real demand for commodities is the power of producing them.
The more numerous are the producers, and the more various their productions, the more prompt, numerous, and extensive are the markets for those productions.
Every product is a means of exchange for other products.
It is not the abundance of money, but the abundance of goods, that constitutes national wealth.
The consumption of an article is the destruction of its utility.
The entrepreneur is a person who undertakes an enterprise, especially a contractor, acting as intermediary between capital and labor.
The value of a thing is the quantity of other things for which it can be exchanged.
The utility of a thing is the power it has of satisfying our wants.
The true riches of a nation consist in the abundance of its products.
The more a nation produces, the more it can consume.
The best way to encourage production is to leave industry free.
The only way to consume is to produce.
The more a nation is productive, the more it is rich.