The Wealth of Nations Quotes

“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:work

“After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:man

“The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy to invade his possessions.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:poverty wealth

“No complaint, however, is more common than that of a scarcity of money.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:poverty money

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition; and where all the superior ranks of people were secured from it, the inferior ranks could not be much exposed to it.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:science people

“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:desire money

“Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:money

“The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain and not arbitrary.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:democracy

“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“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, The Wealth of Nations

topic:interest business

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