Investing Quote by Edd S. Noell

“But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't…

— David Graeber

“ An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , which Smith published in 1776, is the most important book…

— Jerry Z. Muller

“Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations was in large part a critique of imperialism. We often associate opposition to imperialism with Marxism and the Left,…

— Jason Brennan

Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy…

— Robert Heilbroner

Those who see Smith as a defender of capitalism - as it existed in Marx's day, or as it exists today - show above…

— Allen W. Wood

“Wealth makes materialism easier to bear.”

— P. J. O'Rourke

Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

— Allen W. Wood

We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth.

— T. J. Stiles

What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the…

— Richard A. Falk

“A nation is not made welthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.”

— Adam Smith

“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that…

— Ayn Rand

“Adam Smith FRSE (baptised June 5, 1723 O.S. / June 16 N.S. – July 17, 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering…

— Adam Smith