“Profit can only arise upon alienation, i. e. in the act of exchange, when the seller sells more dearly than he has bought.”

—  Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden

Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter III, The Founders Of Political Economy, p. 101

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