David Ricardo Quote

It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always in mind the immediate and temporary effects of particular changes, whereas I put these effects quite aside, and fix my whole attention on the long-term effects that will result from them.

The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo: Volume 7, Letters 1816-18 (ed. Cambridge University Press, 1952) - ISBN: 9780521060721