middle class

'Adam Smith, who described Britain as a nation of shopkeepers, had a keen sense of what could be expected of the middle class. The prudent man, he wrote, "does not go in quest of new enterprises and adventures, which might endanger, but could not well increase, the secure tranquility which he actually enjoys."'

(in The Economist)

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"Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. The great difficult is to get that little." 

(Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations)

 

"Inclusive financial sectors can go a long way toward breaking the vicious circle of poverty... Let us all do our utmost to empower the poor and to ensure that poor people around the world have access to a wide range of financial services."

(Kofi Annan, ex-Secretary General of the United Nations)

I'm in!