Advantageous Society 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 however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making…

— Lawrence 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

“You believe wealth and position grant you advantage over those beneath you?”

— Marcus Crassus

“Men who are industrious, and sober, and honest in the pursuit of their own interests should after a while accumulate capital, and after that…

— Allen C. Guelzo

“Few people ever have an abundance of choice of occupation. But what matters is that we have some choice, that we are not absolutely…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

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

“Take advantage of your disadvantages, feature the few assets you may have, and work harder than anyone else around you.”

— Scott Sonenshein

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

“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