Adam Smith Economics Quotes

#1. The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. Walking this road without you to remake forgotten promises

Tetsuya Nomura

#3. Even Adam Smith's "invisible hand" occasionally needs a slap on the wrist.

Bill Mech

#4. A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

Adam Smith

#5. Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition.

George Stigler

#6. Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back

Adam Smith

#7. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

Daniel Tammet

#8. He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family.

Karin Slaughter

#9. President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

Jonathan Kozol

#10. The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

Adam Smith

#11. The knowledge of "Where am I going?" comes during the process of implementation and dedication to the task

Sunday Adelaja

#12. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Adam Smith

#13. A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

Karen Allen

#14. Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.

Winkie Pratney

#15. My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

Jeff Mangum

#16. If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy.

Winona LaDuke

#17. Be a goal getter; go get your goals!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#18. Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.

Esther Perel

#19. A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Adam Smith

#20. To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families by obliging them to keep an unnecessary number of kitchen utensils.

Adam Smith

#21. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Adam Smith

#22. But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends or held the production of wealth to be an end in itself; rather it was seen as a means to the realization of virtue, a means of leading a civilized life.

Daniel Bell

#23. People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith

#24. Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal. And it is doubly important to remember our origins at a time when we seek to turn ourselves into gods.

Yuval Noah Harari