Business Quotes by Adam Smith

11 Business quotes by Adam Smith

Adam Smith’s Business quotes, though few, capture the core of his economic philosophy, linking market dynamics with ethical considerations. These eleven lines give readers a concise entry into his seminal thoughts on commerce.

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“commerce in Europe, as well as a”

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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…

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But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and…

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The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and…

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That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come…

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In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like…

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Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To…

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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…

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A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or…

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“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what…

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“To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufacture; but one in which the division of labour has been very often…

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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

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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…

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The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain…

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

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