Quotes About Trade

Business is the salt of life

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

Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

Love's never a fair trade.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade

This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.

America has had to turn to foreigners to finance its debt - not surprising since household saving in the last years has plummeted to zero. China is one of the largest holders of American debt.

There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action.

Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

Freedom, security, convenience - choose two

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

He who trades pacing for gimmicky open-world freedom deserves neither.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.