David Ricardo Quotes

• I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope

• I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in History

• I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Travels

• I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corporations

• I think I am basically a happy person.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Happy

• I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Enjoyment

• It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in True

• MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Money

• Money can add very much to one’s ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Life, Money

  Tags in Self

• Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

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  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Interest

• Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

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  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Contemporary

• Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Nature

• Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Life

• Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Philanthropy

• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Economic

• The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Played

• The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Conventional

• The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Produce

• The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Believe

David Ricardo (62)

Birth:	18th April, 1772
Death:	11th September, 1823
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Economist

About

David Ricardo was born in London. He was a British political economist, stock trader, and author. He was often credited with systematising economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economists, along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill.

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