Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.” — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
