Adam Quote by Jean-Baptiste Say

The gains from specialization go all the way back to Adam Smith. He talked about the advantage of a bigger market being that we…

— Paul Romer

“Needless to say, this idea that the origin of prosperity is hard work and frugality was exhaustively formulated by Adam Smith in The Wealth…

— Axel Kaiser

To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates... that all…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.

— Thomas Malthus

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

— Josh Billings

“Smith argued that it was possible for all nations to increase their wealth by adopting policies that promote specialization and the division of labor.”

— Edd S. Noell

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

— P. J. O'Rourke

But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral…

— Paul Ormerod

“The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of…

— Adam Smith

“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

Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his…

— Robert Heilbroner

“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most…

— Bruce Watson