Quotes About Trade

We have relied on China for far too long to provide cheap labor and goods at the expense of America and our workers.

In capitalist terms, art is a global marketplace and artistic labour is too.

Child, there's a sayin' every fishmonger has. When you buy land, you buy stones. When you buy fish, you buy bones.

En kärlek med villkor är ju handel.

Den Weltmarkt erobern«: Weil Händler so sprachen, mußten Krieger so handeln. Seitdem wird erobert, wenngleich nicht der Weltmarkt.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Where is the invisible hand? "It is often invisible because it is not here," according to economist Joseph Stiglitz.

dangerous trade, and she knew there was a bevy of analysts

Despite their current rhetoric of 'free trade', when it comes to trade negotiations almost all of today's high-income countries—including the UK and the United States—took the opposite route to ensure their own industrial success, opting for tariff protection, industrial subsidies and state-owned enterprises when it was nationally advantageous. And today they still keep tight control over their key traded assets such as intellectual property.

Ricardo was right in thinking that very different nations may be able to trade to mutual gain, but comparative advantage is not only what you are blessed with: it is something you can build.

Just as there is no such thing as the free market, it turns out that there is no such thing as free trade: all cross-border flows are set against the backdrop of national history, current institutions and international power relations.

The Wealth of Nations.

cleaning up a nation's air and water by shifting from manufacturing to service industries doesn't eliminate those pollutants: it sends them overseas, letting someone else, somewhere else, feel the burn while those back home can import the neatly packaged finished product.

The best decision gets traded for any decision, and what should be progress simply becomes a trap.

Jesus never told us to erase our ambition. Jesus never said to shun all thought of rewards. He told us to turn from earthly ambition and to shun earthly rewards. He said in effect, "Put yourself last here on earth, and in heaven you'll be first." That's a trade, not a complete denial! That thirst for glory you feel in your heart is part of what makes you human. Jesus just wants us to focus it on heaven, looking for our rewards there.

The 49ers didn't have a first-round pick—it had been traded years earlier to the Bills in the O.J. Simpson trade—and Walsh was hoping to take Simms at the top of the second round. But the Giants took Simms seventh overall, and Walsh had to settle for Joe Montana with the last pick in the third round.

Writing is] a trade [or]...a means of livelihood. You pass your imagination through the ink bottle, and it comes out in the shape of bread and meat, coats and shoes. [Julian Hawthorne]

American trade represented one third of the British economy).

In desperation's hope he calls, "A soul to trade, a soul to sell," For better one to suffer flames, Than daughters loved to burn in Hell.

The lightning-rod man still dwells in the land; still travels in storm-time, and drives a brave trade with the fear of man.

Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff!

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing.

Under international trade laws, "sardine" covers almost two dozen species of fish (for U.S. products it exclusively means young herring), though the true sardine, from Portugal, Spain, France, Morocco, and Algeria, refers to the young pilchard (Sardina pilchardus) caught in Mediterranean or Atlantic waters.