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"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
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"Since we took office, inflation, the fiscal deficit and the balance of payments current account deficit have all fallen. GDP growth, foreign exchange reserves, stock market valuations, and investor confidence have all increased. This success is the result of a series of well thought out policies."
"Economic growth cannot only be restricted to a few cities and a few citizens. Development has to be all-round and all-inclusive."
"Belonging to the working class is the economy's punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class."
"Employment is the biggest form of slavery."
"Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax."
"Not every single broke and unemployed person needs a job, some need customers."
"That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."
"A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself."
"A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets."
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"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."
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"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God."
"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."
"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 theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"
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