Adam Smith Quotes About Affairs

Quotes about: Affairs

• Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Giving, Desire

  Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”, p.102

• The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

  Adam Smith

  Evil, Violence, Injustice

  Adam Smith (2008). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition”, OUP Oxford

• The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company.

  Adam Smith

  People, Watches, Directors

• The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

  Adam Smith

  Get Money, Affair

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.457, VM eBooks

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