The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons. Adam Smith More Quotes by Adam Smith More Quotes From Adam Smith In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so. Adam Smith division competition branches The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. Adam Smith real men mean Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor. Adam Smith uniforms economics wages The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster. Adam Smith A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own. Adam Smith Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. Adam Smith It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages. Adam Smith On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975) Adam Smith The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference... Adam Smith The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness. Adam Smith To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. Adam Smith What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? Adam Smith With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches. Adam Smith I actually don't think this could make things worse, but ... there's still more that needs to be released about how this will work and what the risks are if you get it wrong. Adam Smith health-news I appreciate the questions, but we're not going to tell you how we're going to have an outcome here at this press conference. Adam Smith politics I remember being curious as a small child. I remember trying to grab a stool and rip through the plastic, other than that I never touched it. Adam Smith top-news I still believed the box contained a wedding cake topper. That's just what I assumed. Adam Smith top-news From what I could see the skin and everything was intact. Adam Smith top-news All she told me was' my first born Jennifer would have been 21 years old today,'. Adam Smith top-news I don't anticipate the use of military force, i think the President is, I take him at his word that he doesn't want to get into a war. But that doesn't mean that there's not a risk of it. And we need to manage that risk. Adam Smith politics
