Skip to content

Economics Quote by Adam Smith

“Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but…” quote by Adam Smith — Download Open image

“Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Economics Goods Money Purchasing Purpose

More by Adam Smith

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of…

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…

Image

Defense is superior to opulence.

Image

“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

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.”

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…

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…

Image

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

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…

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…

Image

A sketch of a man facing to the right.

Image

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Image

Explore all 267 Adam Smith quotes

More Economics quotes

Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.

Image

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

Image

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,…

Christopher Bond

Image

Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned…

Charles Boustany

Image

“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the…

Image

“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality…

Pierre Bourdieu

Image

Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,…

Image

Having an economy that works for the 99% is achievable.

Winnie Byanyima

Image

“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,…

Michael C. Mankins

Image

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those…

Friedrich August von Hayek

Image

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

Frederic Bastiat

Image

“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are…

Image

Browse all 7,657 Economics quotes