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Capitalism Economics The Wealth of Nations

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

- Adam Smith

Other quotes by Adam Smith

Public

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

- Adam Smith

Detail Opinion

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.

- Adam Smith

Money First

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

- Adam Smith

Ambiguity Road

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

- Adam Smith

Happiness

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

- Adam Smith

Money World First

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.

- Adam Smith

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