The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“There is an invisible hand at work in the making of beautiful lives.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“In economy, invisible hand is a set of wealthy men. It's the puppeteer who's in charge behind the curtain.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“A forgotten sentence or story from years ago can come back to offer an invisible hand and guide you to a decision.” — Hwang Bo-Reum Copy Share Image
Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Luck as we know it doesn't exist, God's grace is actually that 'invisible' hand that makes people stand out! — Alex Joel Masereka Copy Share Image
“There exists no ”invisible hand“—that was always an unfortunate turn of phrase—but billions of highly visible fingers, doing, purely for personal gain,… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that determines their… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth;… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Let's take Adam Smith, the patron-saint of capitalism, what did he think? He thought the main human instinct was sympathy. In fact,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The self-organizing and self-correcting imprint is on all aspects of reality. So not only was your body formed by this invisible hand,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender,… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I will paint this town—from a distance, as if it is on a far hill—and in the foreground, an enclosure of… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
“it is thought to be somehow related to Adam Smith’s invisible hand, the workings of which are both overstated and mysterious.” — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
People who intend only to serve public interest are led by invisible hand to private interest which was no part of their… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image