73 ordspråk av Adam Smith

Adam Smith

Fler foton...

Adam Smith föddes den 5 juni 1723 och dog den 17 juli 1790 - Scottish economist
Mer info via Google eller Bing.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

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

Socitet

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Vitenskap

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.

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

No complaint ... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any Whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

All money is a matter of belief.

Sidan 3 av 5

1 2 3 4 5

Ergonomi Ordtak Kunskapsfrö Julrim Adventskalender Info

Antall ordtak er 1469560
varav 775337 på nordiska

Ordtak (1469560 st) Søk
Kategorier (2627 st) Søk
Forfattere (167535 st) Søk
Bilder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Land (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)

Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik

Linkene lenger ned har ikke blitt oversatt till norsk. Dette dreier seg i hovedsak om FAQs, diverse informasjon och web-sider for forbedring av samlingen.

Här har vi samlat citat sedan 1990!

Vad är ordtak?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!

Linkene lenger ned har ikke blitt oversatt till norsk. Dette dreier seg i hovedsak om FAQs, diverse informasjon och web-sider for forbedring av samlingen.

Här har vi samlat citat sedan 1990!

Vad är ordtak?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!