Adam Smith — "The great source of our miseries is the comparison of our own condition with tha…"

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

"The annual produce of the land and labour of the society, the real revenue of all its inhabitants."

"The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution."

"The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour."

"The desire of appearing to be wealthy, may be called the great motive to industry and frugality, and the great cause of the accumulation of capital."