Adam Smith Quotes

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Adam Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: June 5, 1723 - July 17, 1790

Topics

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I like Lil Wayne.

Joe Mauer

LikeLil WayneWayne

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Andrew Vachss

BullyingFightFightingYouLose

When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity of United States social policy should also include the mortgage-interest deduction - an enormous benefit that has also become politically untouchable.

Matthew Desmond

MindThinkSecurityBecomeFair

I should brush my hair more.

Anna Chancellor

HairMoreBrushShould

Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year.

Merritt Wever

GoodYearYouBackNothingGet

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

Robyn Davidson

MyselfTryingPersonKindOutUp

Nobody's seen all my work. No one. No one in the world has seen all my movies. Some things just never came out... some things may still come out.

Rutger Hauer

WorkWorldNobodyMoviesNeverOut

There were some that said if you hung in long enough, the world would catch on, and they have.

Roy Clark

WorldEnoughLongYouSaidCatch

I started acting professionally when I was about 17. I worked immediately, but a year into it, I did an independent film in Canada, and that started it all. It was proof that maybe I could do this as a career.

Jordan Gavaris

YearCareerActingCanadaStarted

Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.

Jonathan Ive

UnderstandingUnderstandNeverTurn

I wanted to fulfill my dream of playing in the NFL.

Chris Borland

DreamPlayingNFLWantedFulfill

Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.

Connie Chung

WorkMorningSonDaySchoolYou

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