All for ourselves, and nothing for other... by Adam Smith | We Heart Quotes

Capitalism Economics The Wealth of Nations

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

- Adam Smith

Other quotes by Adam Smith

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

- Adam Smith

Money

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

- Adam Smith

Money First

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

- Adam Smith

Society

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

- Adam Smith

Ambiguity Road

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

- Adam Smith

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 self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.

- Adam Smith

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