Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good. Auteur: Adam Smith Copy Quote More from Adam Smith “Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantage…” “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we…” “Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private int…” “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion…”