Author: Adam Smith

Quotes

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

- Adam Smith

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

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

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.

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

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.

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

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

- Adam Smith

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.

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

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

- Adam Smith

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.

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

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

- Adam Smith

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