Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public.

Adam Smith's Popular Quotes

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

- 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 deman…

- Adam Smith

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

- Adam Smith

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

- Adam Smith

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.

- 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

It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

- Adam Smith

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

- Adam Smith

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

- Adam Smith