Quote#Money & Wealth
If we lavishly and boldly push forward in the creation and…
Quote byWilliam Stanley Jevons · 1835–1882
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Coal Question (1865).
English (original)
If we lavishly and boldly push forward in the creation and distribution of our riches, it is hard to over-estimate the pitch of beneficial influence to which we may attain in the present. But the maintenance of such a position is physically impossible. We have to make the momentous choice between brief greatness and longer continued mediocrity.
— William Stanley Jevons
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