He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
ADAM SMITHHe is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
ADAM SMITHThe interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
ADAM SMITHI am a beau in nothing but my books.
ADAM SMITHNo society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
ADAM SMITHMan naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
ADAM SMITHIt 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 SMITHIt is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
ADAM SMITHIn general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.
ADAM SMITHThe learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
ADAM SMITHBeneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
ADAM SMITHThe problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.
ADAM SMITHMercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
ADAM SMITHWith the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
ADAM SMITHAll for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
ADAM SMITHI have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
ADAM SMITHCorn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
ADAM SMITH