Every individual... neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it... he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

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.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Heaven does not create one person above or below another.

-- Fukuzawa Yukichi

Do not give things to children; give them hardship.

-- Nogi Maresuke

I shall run wild for six months to a year, but I have utterly no confidence for the second and third years.

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo

Economics deals with society's fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.

-- Ludwig von Mises

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

-- Joan Robinson