Quotes About Trade

The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.

For several years, I have had my eye on second baseman Del Pratt of St. Louis. I cannot say that he is a better player than our own Joe Gedeon, but he has played better ball, and we wanted him. Well, how did I get him? I paid $15,000 in cash and gave away a number of good players for him. But what can you do?

Trade and investment have come to be the foundation, the ballast, of the U.S.-China relationship, providing great stability.

Free trade and economic stability do not, by themselves, guarantee success.

Exchange-rate stability is extremely important.

I think partly the decline in the peso was due to worry about renegotiation of NAFTA, but I think we also need to think about some other mechanisms for making the peso/dollar exchange rate a bit more stable.

The economic importance of maintaining strong trade relations with our two closest neighbors cannot be overstated. Any decision negatively affecting the free flow of trade from Missouri to Canada and Mexico would have undesirable economic consequences. Thousands of jobs and billions of dollars are at stake.

Britain should not be held back by the E.U.'s protectionist stance which keeps so many developing countries from growing their economies.

I see something different in Hillary Clinton. She wants a trade prosecutor. She's going after currency. She's going stand up strong on keeping China designated as a non-market economy.

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

We very clearly do not want an authoritarian regime... setting standards in the world marketplace.

I think the free agent process is a little bit different because other major pro sports like the NBA or NHL, you're looking at 30 teams. You have 30 options. You don't really have that in this industry. There is one name that stands above all else, and that's WWE. So to really be on top, that's where you have to apply your trade.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

I've gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That's a great story for America.

Flea markets are also now legal in Cuba, and a petty trade in cast-off clothing and household goods takes place. Twelve years ago it was unthinkable for anyone to buy or sell anything in the open, for buying and selling were symptoms of bourgeois individualism and contrary to Fidel's socialist vision, in which everything is to be rationed—rationally, as it were—according to need. (In practice, of course, this meant rationing according to what there was, which was not much.)

Given the gulf between the excellence of Italian design, educated by the beauties of the past, and the unremitting tastelessness of British modernity, it is not a coincidence that Italy has one of the largest trading surpluses of any nation, while Britain has one of the largest deficits.