24 Random Quotes From Adam Smith

24 Random Quotes From Adam Smithe

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

— Adam Smith

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.

— Adam Smith

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

— Adam Smith

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.

— Adam Smith

All money is a matter of belief.

— Adam Smith

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

— Adam Smith

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.

— Adam Smith

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

— Adam Smith

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

— Adam Smith

Defense is superior to opulence.

— Adam Smith

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

— Adam Smith

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

— Adam Smith

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.

— Adam Smith

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

— Adam Smith

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

— Adam Smith

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

— Adam Smith

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

— Adam Smith

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.

— Adam Smith

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

— Adam Smith

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

— Adam Smith

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 Smith

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.

— Adam Smith

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

— Adam Smith

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

— Adam Smith

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