Advantage Quote by Adam Smith

“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage,…

— Adam Smith

“Advantage! What is advantage? And will you take it upon yourself to define with perfect accuracy in what the advantage of man consists? And…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making…

— Laurence Sterne

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

— P. T. Barnum

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently…

— C. Wright Mills

Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public…

— Adam Smith

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through…

— Samuel Johnson

“If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own…

— Ludwig von Mises

Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake…

— Otto Rank

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more than they…

— Hans F. Sennholz