Our merchants and master manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people. (ang.)
Badania nad naturą i przyczynami bogactwa narodów
Źródło: Księga I, rozdz. IX
Adam Smith: Inny
Adam Smith był brytyjski myśliciel. Odkryj ciekawe cytaty na temat inny.Źródło: Jerzy Chodorowski, Adam Smith (1723–1790). Życie i dzieło autora „Badań nad naturą i przyczynami bogactwa narodów”, Wyd. Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2002, s. 253.
As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. (…) and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. (ang.)
Badania nad naturą i przyczynami bogactwa narodów
Źródło: Księga IV, rozdz. II, przeł.B. Jasińska, PWN, Warszawa 1954.