QOTD: Adam Smith on Economic Self-Interest

Posted on January 18, 2013 | 1 Comment

“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, author of The Wealth of Nations

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One Response to QOTD: Adam Smith on Economic Self-Interest

  1. Ty | January 18, 2013 at 8:20 am | Reply

    “All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.”
    —Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations

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