“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.”
More from Adam Smith on Economy
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.”
“Man an animal that makes bargains.”
“The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.”
Others on Economy
Karl Marx
6 quotes“The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.”
Margaret Thatcher
3 quotes“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Abraham Lincoln
2 quotes“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”
Charles Baudelaire
1 quote“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”
Michel Foucault
1 quote“From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure”
Montesquieu
1 quote“Peace is a natural effect of trade.”
Lenin
1 quote“The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 quote“There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.”
Sir Winston Churchill
1 quote“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift h...”
Frank Zappa
1 quote“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
Herbert Hoover
1 quote“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
José Saramago
1 quote“It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic pow...”