Quotes by Adam Smith

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

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from...

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that...

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater...

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the...

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether...

Defense is superior to opulence.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the...

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords,...

All money is a matter of belief.