Top 100 Smith Adam Quotes

#1. As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.

Adam Smith

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#2. Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?

Seth Adam Smith

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#3. In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

Adam Smith

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#4. For each of us, there comes a time when we must awaken and become what we were born to become.

Seth Adam Smith

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#5. Have you spent so much time in the darkness that you cannot understand the light?

Seth Adam Smith

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#6. Don't be afraid to be the person who loves the most

Seth Adam Smith

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#7. Life is difficult and painful, but if you keep moving forward the final destination makes all of the pain worth it.

Seth Adam Smith

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#8. Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

Adam Smith

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#9. The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.

Jean-Baptiste Say

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#10. The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

Adam Smith

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#11. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

Adam Smith

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#12. But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

Adam Smith

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#13. That prevailed before his time. National wealth was measured in terms of a country's stock

Adam Smith

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#14. Real love isn't just a euphoric, spontaneous feeling - it's a deliberate choice - a plan to love each other for better and worse, for richer and poorer, in sickness and in health.

Seth Adam Smith

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#15. The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. When

Adam Smith

Smith Adam Quotes #70329
#16. Abandon the idea that you will forever be the victim of the things that have happened to you. Choose to be a victor.

Seth Adam Smith

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#17. Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. ...
And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

Milton Friedman

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#18. Charity is the entrance to the garden.

Seth Adam Smith

Smith Adam Quotes #72522
#19. There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Adam Smith

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#20. ...a man within the breast...

Adam Smith

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#21. No complaint ... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Adam Smith

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#22. THE WEALTH OF NATIONS is one of the most important and influential books ever written. It

Adam Smith

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#23. I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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#24. 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

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#25. To superficial minds, the vices of the great seem at all times agreeable.

Adam Smith

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#26. I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.

Seth Adam Smith

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#27. And a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniences of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.

Adam Smith

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#28. Growth theory did not begin with my articles of 1956 and 1957, and it certainly did not end there. Maybe it began with 'The Wealth of Nations'; and probably even Adam Smith had predecessors.

Robert Solow

Smith Adam Quotes #118277
#29. Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Adam Smith

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#30. The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Adam Smith

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#31. Helping someone feel they belong is a magic all its own.

Seth Adam Smith

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#32. If you're feeling discouraged and defeated - don't quit. Play on, hope on, and move forward. The music you play - even in the midst of incredible darkness - can and will turn the tide of your own battles.

Seth Adam Smith

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#33. The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

Adam Smith

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#34. One day, you will stand at the summit of a figurative mountain and look back on your life's journey. And, to your utter amazement, you will see how your experiences with depression, dark and painful as they were, only added to the overall beauty of your life.

Seth Adam Smith

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#35. Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.

Seth Adam Smith

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#36. What happens if it doesn't work out, Charli?" he called.
"Then it's not the end, Adam," I replied, barely slowing my walk.

G.J. Walker-Smith

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#37. It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers" ... (p. 58)

Jerry Z. Muller

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#38. Paradoxically, the more you truly love that person, the more love you receive.

Seth Adam Smith

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#39. The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition ... is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

Adam Smith

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#40. When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

Adam Smith

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#41. 1 person will tell you that you can do it, 100 people will tell you that you can't, and 20 people will tell you that you can do it only with their help. One person is right.

Ryan Adam Smith

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#42. Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

Adam Smith

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#43. The rate of profit ... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

Adam Smith

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#44. Fill your life with light!

Seth Adam Smith

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#45. Of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

Adam Smith

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#46. The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperate us against himself than against his enemies.

Adam Smith

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#47. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

Adam Smith

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

Bill Mech

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#49. It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.

Adam Smith

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#50. I am a believer in Adam Smith, who says that if you look at something that really contributes value to society, and you can deliver it at a reasonable price, then society will recognise that at some point because rational behaviour will come into play.

David Cheriton

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#51. A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential.

Seth Adam Smith

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#52. When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?

Adam Smith

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#53. Like small seeds, small deeds can make a big difference.

Seth Adam Smith

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#54. The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours all his life to outdo his competitors, only to find the end that the rich are no happier than the poor in the things that really matter.

Adam Smith

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#55. We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

Adam Smith

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#56. Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation - all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith's vision of an opulent society.

Mark Skousen

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#57. But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

Adam Smith

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#58. It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that
great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie.

Vladimir Lenin

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#59. Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons.

Seth Adam Smith

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#60. To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.

Adam Smith

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#61. The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

Adam Smith

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#62. Mortal minds are always unsettled by eternal things; they want to catch the infinite and nail it down to something finite. Impossible!

Seth Adam Smith

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#63. All money is a matter of belief.

Adam Smith

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#64. It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

Adam Smith

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#65. Don't give in to the darkness, for there is so much life ahead of you.

Seth Adam Smith

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#66. I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.

James D. Watson

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#67. The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.

Adam Smith

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#68. Every man lives by exchanging.

Adam Smith

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#69. The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us.

Seth Adam Smith

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#70. This is the miracle of all miracles - when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic.

Seth Adam Smith

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#71. Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

Adam Smith

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#72. As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Adam Smith

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#73. commerce in Europe, as well as a

Adam Smith

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

Adam Smith

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#75. China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

Adam Smith

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#76. An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

Adam Smith

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#77. Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.

Seth Adam Smith

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#78. I refuse to believe that the only reason we are here is to pay taxes and die.

Seth Adam Smith

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#79. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

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#80. In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.

Seth Adam Smith

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#81. 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

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#82. Wonder ... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

Adam Smith

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

Adam Smith

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#84. Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible.

Adam Smith

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#85. In reality high profits tend much more to raise the price of (a piece of) work than high wages. (quoting Adam Smith - ch.
(III - From Corporatism to Democracy)

John Ralston Saul

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#86. Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

Adam Smith

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#87. In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

Adam Smith

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#88. He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known." "That is very well known," agreed Mma Ramotswe. "Look at Adam. Look how he fell for Eve." "Just because she had no clothes on, he fell for her," said Mma Makutsi. "That sometimes helps," said Mma Ramotswe.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#89. It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

P. J. O'Rourke

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#91. All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

Adam Smith

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#92. Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity: ...

Adam Smith

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#93. An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.

Adam Smith

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#94. Faith can turn the night to light.

Seth Adam Smith

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#95. One human life is worth more than all the treasures of the earth.

Seth Adam Smith

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#96. Fear finds an excuse while faith finds a way.

Seth Adam Smith

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#97. There are two forces at work in the world: the power of light and the power of darkness.

Seth Adam Smith

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#98. Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men, without any regard to, or foresight of, their consequences upon the general welfare of the society;

Adam Smith

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#99. Darling, I would follow you through the blackest midnight - just not without my trousers!

Seth Adam Smith

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#100. Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

Adam Smith

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