No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
ADAM SMITHIt is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
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How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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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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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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