Adam Smith Quotes

the competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

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• Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

  

  Ovid
  • Believe
  • Belief
  • Slow

• I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Competition

• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Government
  • Risk

• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Progress

• I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Money
  • Job
  • Competition

• My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Women

• Competition is good and has served us well.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Good
  • Competition
  • Well

• In a world with weak aggregate demand, countries are engaging in a futile competition for a greater share of it. In the process, they are creating financial-sector and cross-border risks that will become increasingly apparent as countries exit their unconventional policies.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Financial
  • Competition

• America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • America
  • Growth
  • Period

• By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Party

• Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Business
  • City

• The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Want
  • Competition

• I love horror movies.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Horror

• Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Competition
  • Senior
  • Citizen

• I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Worry

• What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Great
  • Small
  • Quality

• I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Moving
  • Democracy
  • Competition

• There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Help

• There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

  

  Feist
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Change

• Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Experience
  • Human

• I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.'

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Up
  • Saying
  • Risks

• She is all that is gracious, Her spirit is comely, The work of her hands is fair.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Hands

• the competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Competition