Quotes About Trade

That's one reason (we'll see more reasons in the next chapter) why locavores have such a misguided philosophy. It overlooks that some parts of the world are running out of water and that trade of food—often long-distance trade—is the best or indeed the only real answer to that problem. Very often, trading across a distance solves more environmental problems than it creates.

That's one reason (we'll see more reasons in the next chapter) why locavores have such a misguided philosophy. It overlooks that some parts of the world are running out of water and that trade of food—often long-distance trade—is the best or indeed the only real answer to that problem. Very often, trading across

Globalization is a strategy of liberalization that becomes an economic nightmare for the poor

The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corporations control the seed market, it is not a free market, it is a cartel.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labour that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.2

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.

Post–Industrial Revolution, especially post–information and tech revolutions, we learn to spend most of our time selling one small slice of our talents to pay for everything else we need.

Money is something you trade your life energy for. You sell your time for money. It doesn't matter that Ned over there sells his time for a hundred dollars and you sell yours for twenty dollars an hour. Ned's money is irrelevant to you. The only real asset you have is your time. The hours of your life.

Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Nothing personal, it's just business

I don't like all this business stuff. I like stocks.

Business is business, no child's play.

The business of America is business.