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There are 42 quotes for the author Adam Smith

Quotations 21 to 40 of 42 Results Page: 1 2 3

All money is a matter of belief.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

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.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature

Any and all copyright holders ... can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable

It 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

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is ... that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

I just saw people coming and going, and I asked if I could help.

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

It (Oxford) 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

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

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.

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.

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