Quotes About Trade

I trade with you my mind.

Sandecker picked out a cigar from a humidor on the bedside table and lit it. Even though the trade embargo with Cuba had been lifted in 1985, he still preferred the milder flavor and looser wrap of a Honduras over the Havana. He always felt that a good cigar kept the world at bay.

Se houve um momento fatal no destino da Rota da Seda, talvez não tenha sido a tomada de Constantinopla, nem o enclausuramento da China pelos Ming, nem o desembarque de Colombo, mas sim o dia, algures no século X, em que um chinês desconhecido descobriu a bússola marítima.

What are the alternative industries to your industry? Why do customers trade across them? By focusing on the key factors that lead buyers to trade across alternative industries and eliminating or reducing everything else, you can create a blue ocean of new market space.

Wayward Brahmin: 'I can buy all the ginger and pepper you can grow.' Spice Islander: 'Marry my daughter!' The young bride melts into his arms. Wayward baron: 'But isn't it forbidden to marry outside caste, my guru?' 'Unless gig is very, very good, my disciple.' A century or so later: 'You grow all the ginger and pepper we can buy!

It only worked for a little while the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.

This provision made Magellan responsible to Cartagena for all commercial decisions.

Baldaya sailed farther south and collected thousands of sealskins;

On subsequent voyages, Portuguese ships brought gold, animal hides, elephant tusks—and slaves.

Magellan was to go in search of spices and lands, and nothing else, and when he reached the Spice Islands

his voyage opened new possibilities for Portuguese trade and conquest.

Vasco da Gama retraced Dias's route around the tip of Africa and reached Mozambique on the southeastern coast;

there he replenished his supplies and sailed farther east to establish an ocean route to India.

Portugal retained its ambition to wrest control of the spice trade from the Arabs, and to reach the Spice Islands

Serrão carefully cultivated Ternate's small ruling class, especially its king, and tried to promote trade between Ternate and Portugal

European traders wishing to reach the Spice Islands previously had traveled east rather than west

O mundo que Marco Polo explorou está perdido para a História de muitas maneiras, mas alguns aspectos importantes do retrato que ele traça são surpreendentemente contemporâneos. Como mercador, compreendeu que o comércio era a essência das relações internacionais e que ele se sobrepunha aos sistemas políticos e às crenças religiosas, que são autolimitadores

he would be able to turn west toward the Spice Islands;

The global spice trade underwent an upheaval in 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks

routes between Asia and Europe were severed. The prospect of establishing a spice trade via an ocean route opened up

new economic possibilities for any European nation able to master the seas.

The lure of spices impelled sober, cautious financiers to back highly risky expeditions to unknown parts of the globe

If a sailor devoted years of his life to getting there and back, and if he managed to bring home a small sack stuffed with spices

rather than establishing their own foreign trading empires.