Profit Quotes by Adam Smith

8 Profit quotes by Adam Smith

Adam Smith’s eight statements on profit echo classic economic thought, distilling complex market dynamics into clear, memorable lines.

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In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation…

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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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When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

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The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries…

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Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own…

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When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of…

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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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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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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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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to…

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When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we…

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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

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