ECONOMICS QUOTES:
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.
Adam Smith
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Adam Smith
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Adam Smith
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the
greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard
Keynes
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert,
in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
Milton Friedman
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink
and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman
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.
Adam Smith
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Adam Smith
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Adam Smith
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the
greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard
Keynes
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert,
in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
Milton Friedman
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink
and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman