"The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings"
"It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character."
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Source: Alfred Marshall (1997). “Principles of Economics”
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