Quotes About Trade

Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.

Value' has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human—'market value' is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average of personal values, all of which must be quantitatively different or trade would be impossible.

The South China Sea functions as the throat of the Western Pacific and Indian oceans—the mass of connective economic tissue where global sea routes coalesce. Here is the heart of Eurasia's navigable rimland, punctuated by the Malacca, Sunda, Lombok, and Makassar straits. More than half of the world's annual merchant fleet tonnage passes through these choke points, and a third of all maritime traffic worldwide.2

Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.

It was trade routes, not the projection of military power, that emblemized the "Pax Mongolica."[

Oman is an example of how globalization at its best is built on vigorous localisms that can survive the onslaught of destructive commercial forces.

Girard, who really was a vegetarian, financed America's earliest trade endeavors, becoming America's first richest man.

My fingers tightened on my waxed paper cup, sure now I knew why Minias was sitting at a table sipping coffee with me. I had a password. I had a reason to trade. I had a major problem.

Sellers offer stuff, buyers buy it, and in the flux of supply and demand the price gets determined. It's crowdsourced, it's democratic, it's capitalism, it's the market.

Fungibility, n. The tendency of everything to be completely interchangeable with money. Health, for instance.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

There exists no "invisible hand"—that was always an unfortunate turn of phrase—but billions of highly visible fingers, doing, purely for personal gain, what others will freely barter for, with the sole object of improving their lives and those of their children.

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

Without a doubt, the prospects (of China-US economic and trade relationship) are bright.

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

Trade is a proper and decent relationship, with dignity and respect on both sides.

Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.

Just as the Atlantic slave trade did not stem from hatred towards Africans, so the modern animal industry is not motivated by animosity. Again, it is fuelled by indifference.

In 1775 Asia accounted for 80 per cent of the world economy. The combined economies of India and China alone represented two-thirds of global production. In comparison, Europe was an economic dwarf.3

People care far more about their enemies than about their trade partners. For every American film about Taiwan, there are probably fifty about Vietnam.

At the end of the Middle Ages, slavery was almost unknown in Christian Europe. During the early modern period, the rise of European capitalism went hand in hand with the rise of the Atlantic slave trade.