Art Quote by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere…

— Adam Smith

“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a…

— Immanuel Kant

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false…

— John Ruskin

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division…

— Ludwig von Mises

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

— Adam Smith

“Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“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

This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of…

— Adam Smith

“One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connection, and therefore of responsibility, between…

— Michael Pollan

“You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.”

— Karl Marx

“It was a symbiotic division of labor that would have made a classical economist flush with pride.”

— Barry Eisler

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

— Robert Shea