Devil Quote by Samuel Butler

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

— Samuel Butler

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

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

Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“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

When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call…

— Carroll Quigley

“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

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read…

— Anonymous

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

— Adam Smith

As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as…

— Karl Marx

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

“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