Quotes About Trade

But trading joy for less vulnerability is a deal with the devil. And the devil never pays up.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature.

Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

Yet some, not wise, go to the other side of the globe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, and devote themselves to trade for ten or twenty years, in order that they may live—that is, keep comfortably warm—and die in New England at last. The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as i implied before, they are cooked, à la mode.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.

As for my landlord, drinking was his trade; and the liquor had no more effect on him than it had on any other vessel in his house. The

Each of us must also sell something, even if for most of us it is our own services rather than goods, in order to get the purchasing power to buy.

In every country it always is and must be the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it cheapest.

Prices are determined by supply and demand, and demand is determined by how intensely people want a commodity and what they have to offer in exchange for it.

It is exports that pay for imports, and vice versa. The greater exports we have, the greater imports we must have, if we ever expect to get paid.

demand and supply are merely two sides of the same coin. They are the same thing looked at from different directions. Supply creates demand because at bottom it is demand. The supply of the thing they make is all that people have, in fact, to offer in exchange for the things they want.

When they make it a main objective to increase exports, most of them do not realize that they necessarily make it a main objective ultimately to increase imports.

En todos los países, el interés de la inmensa mayoría de la población es y debe ser siempre comprar lo que necesita a quien vende más barato.»

In an exchange economy everybody's money income is somebody else's cost.

si el Gobierno fija aranceles a la importación de productos, simplemente estará orientado la economía a producir de manera ineficiente unos bienes y servicios que están disponibles más baratos en el extranjero, perjudicando a gran cantidad de empresarios internos cuya demanda desaparecerá

En todos los países, el interés de la inmensa mayoría de la población es y debe ser siempre comprar lo que necesita a quien vende más barato.» «El supuesto es tan evidente —continuaba Smith— que esforzarnos en demostrarlo podría parecer ridículo; nunca habría sido puesto en duda si las interesadas falacias de mercaderes y fabricantes no hubieran perturbado el sentido común de la humanidad.»

He put into his one little glass everything he raised to his lips, and it was as if he had always carried in his pocket, like a tool of his trade, this receptacle, a little glass cut with a fineness of which the art had long since been lost, and kept in an old morocco case stamped in uneffaceable gilt with the arms of a deposed dynasty.

Her words imbued it with a peculiar fragrance; it was no longer just her private organ, but a treasure, a magic, potent treasure, a God-given thing--and none the less so because she traded it day and day out for a few pieces or silver.

There is all the different in the world between paying and being paid.

And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.