The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its p… - Adam Smith

A man must be perfectly crazy who, where there is tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands,...

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of the workman. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject.

A great stock, though with small profits, generally increases faster than a small stock with great profits. Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little.