A 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 SMITHCorn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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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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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
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Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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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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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.
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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Defense is superior to opulence.
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That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
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In 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.
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A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.
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The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
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