The 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 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.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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All 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.
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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.
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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.
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In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.
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The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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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.
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Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
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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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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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