Quotes About Trade

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.

The actions taken by the Cuban government with its new trade zone open up the potential of strategic investments from Mexico. Mexican companies are very excited.

Germany benefits the most from the European Union because Germany is, by far, the biggest exporter into the Euro Zone, and therefore, it benefits. And one who benefits the most must take the biggest responsibility.

It's a bad bargain where nobody gains.

Who buys has need of two eyes But one's enough to sell the stuff.

A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.

It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Shoemaker, stick to your last.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.

I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence.

It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything.

During trade deadline, we pretty much tell every player, look, there's lots of names, lots of everything for every player in the league. So it's best to tune it out because every team's job is to explore things and you don't like when things get out, but it's silly to kill or accentuate rumors during deadline week.

In the 1970s, Japan moved into the U.S. turf with its televisions, cars, chips, and steel. But if you think about it, the only business Japan destroyed was the U.S. television industry.

Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.

Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.