Adam Smith/legacy

Famous quotes containing the words adam smith, adam, smith and/or legacy:

    “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 (1723–1790)

    “Thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell, and what
    should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days in villainy?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    “What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
    —Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)