Adam Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

— Anonymous

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

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

. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in which the…

— Milton Friedman

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one…

— Margaret Thatcher

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

— Donald E. Westlake

“The first industrial revolution is flawed. It is not working. It is unsustainable. It is a mistake and we must move on to another…

— Wayne Visser

His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out…

— Julian Barnes

“They had all the means to develop a spinning machine, but “nobody tried”—another example of knowledge hampering optionality. They probably needed someone like Steve…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was a defender…

— Allen W. Wood

In my book, 'The Big Three in Economics,' I found that the press has frequently and prematurely written the obituary of Adam Smith and…

— Mark Skousen

Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.

— Patricia Briggs