338 Quotes by Adam Smith

Never let people who are more unhappy than you tell you how to live your life.

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

And a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniences of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for the merriment and diversion, but the conversaton ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Man is an animal that makes bargains, no other animal does this, no dog exchanges bones with another.