“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.”
José Saramago
1 quote“It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic pow...”
Lao Tzu
1 quote“The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and...”
Cicero
1 quote“The sinews of war are infinite money.”
Aesop
1 quote“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”
Booker T. Washington
1 quote“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race econom...”
Marshall McLuhan
1 quote“Affluence creates poverty.”
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.”