Adam Smith Economics Quotations

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

Every man lives by exchanging.

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.