Adam Smith · Skopia

Quotes

19

Economic literature

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 interest.

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 9.9

Economic literature

Every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it... he intends only his own security... and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 7.2

Economic literature · Philosophical literature

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments · 1759

★ 7.1

Economic literature

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches; which, in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 5.5

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Books

2

The Wealth of Nations

1776★ 8.2

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

1759★ 6.8