Economics Quote by Adam Smith Download Open image “Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.” — Adam Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Inequality Property
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Greatness can’t be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us. — Jeff Sutherland Copy Share Image
“Given our current system of property ownership, it makes sense that we would see greater wealth inequality in places where there's greater population density… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil… — Walt Whitman 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
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share 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. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
