Logo
Quote by Adam Smith
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was pa

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

Other quotes by Adam Smith

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. – Adam Smith

Category:
Peace
Author
Adam Smith
Read Quote

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. – Adam Smith

Category:
Science
Author
Adam Smith
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Labor Day
category

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. – Ovid

Category:
Labor Day

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. – Doug Larson

Category:
Labor Day

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers. – H.M. Tomlinson

Category:
Labor Day

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. – Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Category:
Labor Day

Random Quotes

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didnt get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them. – Michel Gondry

Category:
strength

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. – Sally Ride

Category:
Science

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. Weve had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty. – Maxine Waters

Category:
Change

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. – Buddha

Category:
Peace