Produce Quotes by Adam Smith

10 Produce quotes by Adam Smith

Adam Smith examines produce with the economic intuition that made him famous, but in a concise format. These ten lines distill his view on labor, value, and the forces that shape what we bring to market.

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In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to…

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The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which…

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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in…

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

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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap…

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“According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those…

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A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord,…

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The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but…

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Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without…

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Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom…

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“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.”

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

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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…

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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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