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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.

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
Business, Invisible Hand, Government
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)

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.

Adam Smith
Business, Real, Men
1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.5.

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.

Adam Smith
Business, Men, Animal
Adam Smith (1801). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adam Smith
Travel, Business, Adventure
Adam Smith (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)”, p.531, Delphi Classics

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