Consumption Quote by Adam Smith Download Open image “Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.” — Adam Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumption Ends Overconsumption Productions Promoting Purpose Small is beautiful Sole Wealth of nations
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The main purpose of production is to manufacture items of good quality for daily use in abundant supply, thereby enhancing and improving the life… — Konosuke Matsushita Copy Share Image
Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies -… — Felix Guattari 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
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes… — Michael Dean Crapo Copy Share Image
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
