We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
ADAM SMITHWhen profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.
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When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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The game women play is men.
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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.
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
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A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.
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Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
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