Adam Smith Quotes
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.Adam Smith
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
Ian Hacking -
Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
Fidel Castro -
My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
Laura Wasser -
I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
Dan Gable -
Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
Adam Cohen
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Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu -
South Central is just who I am.
Ice Cube -
My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
Barrett Foa -
I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
Jack Ma -
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Lao Tzu -
Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
Nate Berkus
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
Gabriela Sabatini -
I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
Uwe Boll -
I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'
Gaby Hoffmann -
The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
Oscar de la Renta -
The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.
Lamar Odom
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'Alice' took over two years to make and took a great deal of planning, obviously much more than usual. We spent so much more time prepping the film, and that was unique for us.
Jennifer Todd -
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
Marc Ribot -
I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
Vince Vaughn -
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
Jack Nicholson -
When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around me from our fancy-dress box. I was obsessed with a feather and rabbit-fur collar from the age of three and attempted to make one with my friend, whose father was a gamekeeper.
Alice Temperley -
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
Adam Smith