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Adam Smith Quotes
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. - Adam Smith Quotes
All money is a matter of belief. - Adam Smith Quotes
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. - Adam Smith Quotes
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. - Adam Smith Quotes
Defense is superior to opulence. - Adam Smith Quotes
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. - Adam Smith Quotes
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. - Adam Smith Quotes
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man. - Adam Smith Quotes
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. - Adam Smith Quotes
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. - Adam Smith Quotes
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. - Adam Smith Quotes
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. - Adam Smith Quotes
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. - Adam Smith Quotes
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. - Adam Smith Quotes
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. - Adam Smith Quotes
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this. - Adam Smith Quotes
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. - Adam Smith Quotes
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. - Adam Smith Quotes
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. - Adam Smith Quotes
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. - Adam Smith Quotes
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. - Adam Smith Quotes
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. - Adam Smith Quotes
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. - Adam Smith Quotes
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. - Adam Smith Quotes
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. - Adam Smith Quotes
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster. - Adam Smith Quotes
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. - Adam Smith Quotes
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. - Adam Smith Quotes
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. - Adam Smith Quotes
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. - Adam Smith Quotes
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