Adam Smith — "The consideration of our own private interest is the great source of our industr…"

"The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects."

"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 f…"

"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."

"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. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their…"

"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or…"