Những danh ngôn của adam smith

1. "The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it."

2. "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."

3. "The invisible hand of the market ensures that individuals pursuing their own self-interest also promote the good of society as a whole."

4. "Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."

5. "The wealth of a nation is not measured by the abundance of its resources, but by the productivity of its people."

6. "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

7. "The propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals."

8. "The division of labor is limited by the extent of the market."

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

10. "The first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by means of a military force."