Adam Smith — 🏺 Philosophy Quote

Self-interest drives progress. Understand this, and you can navigate the world more effectively.

“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

Self-interest drives progress. Understand this, and you can navigate the world more effectively.

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More from Adam Smith

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

— Adam Smith

“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”

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“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the members are poor and miserable”

— Adam Smith

“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”

— Adam Smith