Adam Smith
Scottish Economist
Lived from: 1723 - 1790
Category: Business and entrepreneurs Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 5 june 1723 Died: 17 july 1790
Quotes 21 till 37 of 37.
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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.
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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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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.
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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.
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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.
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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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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
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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.
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759)― Adam Smith -
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
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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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With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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“If, as has already been observed, I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg, or my own arm: and when it does fall, I feel it in some measure, and am hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part II (1759)― Adam Smith
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