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Self-interest3 quotes
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. — Adam Smith · 1776Every 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. — Adam Smith · 1776It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair · 1935
Capitalism1 quote
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. — Adam Smith · 1776
Free market1 quote
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. — Adam Smith · 1776
Incentives1 quote
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair · 1935
Invisible hand1 quote
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. — Adam Smith · 1776
Selfishness1 quote
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair · 1935
Unintended consequences1 quote
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. — Adam Smith · 1776