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 SMITHThe 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 SMITHGreat nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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 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 SMITHThe world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
ADAM SMITHWonder 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.
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 SMITHOn the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
ADAM SMITHAsk any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.
ADAM SMITHAll money is a matter of belief.
ADAM SMITHNothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
ADAM SMITHDefense is superior to opulence.
ADAM SMITHAn English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . Hunted out of every corner of the world.
ADAM SMITHA gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.
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 SMITHNo complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
ADAM SMITH