Adam Smith Quotes About Purpose

• El consumo es el único fin y propósito de toda producción; y el interés del productor debe ser atendido, sólo en la medida en que sea necesario para promover el del consumidor.

  Adam Smith

  Purpose, May, Ends

  'Wealth of Nations' (1776) bk. 4, ch. 8

• Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

  Adam Smith

  Purpose, Economics, Purchasing

  Adam Smith (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner”, p.177

• To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

  Adam Smith

  Government, Sight, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 7 (1776). Other quotation compilations have this ending with "whose government is influenced by shopkeepers," but the first edition reads as above. See Napoleon 5; Josiah Tucker 1

• El consumo es el único fin y propósito de toda producción.

  Adam Smith

  Propósito, Fines, Único

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.8.

• En todas las partes del universo observamos medios ajustados con el más bello artificio a los fines que están destinados a producir; y en el mecanismo de una planta, o cuerpo animal, admiramos cómo cada cosa está ideada para avanzar en los dos grandes propósitos de la naturaleza, el apoyo del individuo, y la propagación de la especie.

  Adam Smith

  Medio, Animal, Dos

  Adam Smith, Robert L. Heilbroner, Laurence J. Malone (1987). “The Essential Adam Smith”, p.97, W. W. Norton & Company

• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

  Adam Smith

  Self, Purpose, May

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.274

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