Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and
you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the
nearer your approach to this certainty.
Adam Smith
All money is a matter of belief.
Adam Smith
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith
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
Defense is superior to opulence.
Adam Smith
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Adam Smith
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam Smith
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Adam Smith
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
All money is a matter of belief.
Adam Smith
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith
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
Defense is superior to opulence.
Adam Smith
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Adam Smith
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam Smith
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Adam Smith
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
Adam Smith
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