73 ordspråk av Adam Smith

Adam Smith

Adam Smith

Adam Smith föddes den 5 juni 1723 och dog den 17 juli 1790 - Scottish economist
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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Defense is superior to opulence.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

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.

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.

Here Sunday, April, 9th, 1865, after four years of heroic struggle in defense of the principals believed to be fundamental to the existence of our government, Lee surrendered 9,000 men, the remnant of an army still unconquered in spirit, to 118,000 m

Counsel for the defense was prepared to prove: 1) He shot in self defense, 2) The police did it and stuck the gun in his hand, and 3) He was 100 miles away when it happened

Defense is superior to opulence.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been hunted out of every corner of the world

I just saw people coming and going, and I asked if I could help.

That was probably our best game of the year.

I need more fights like that.

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.

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