Quotes About Trade

The wealth of Venice and Genoa was made in trade with infidels of Syria and Egypt despite papal prohibition.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

For if one is to be a warrior, he has to pay attention to his trade and art. Discipline is the first rule of success.

The flood of cheap manufactures, for which the people have no need,destroys their industries. They become dependent on this trade and the demand for goods can only be met by enslaving their fellows.

I had found my niche working in a trade I love with reasonable hours.

I want to see the economy rebound.

For the Broncos, they're kind of in a rebuilding stage with a lot of young guys and here I am, 10 years in the league, ready to be a free agent. I think it was best for the Broncos to trade me for the draft picks and try to build.

The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85.

Any bilateral trade and investment agreement must be comprehensive and address the full range of barriers to U.S. goods and services if it is to receive broad, bipartisan congressional support.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

It's not compatible to expect multilateralism to work and, at the same time, to expect to walk out with everything you wanted. This is a recipe for failure. If we prize the system, we have to come knowing that we will need to make compromises. Sometimes painful compromises.

When you taste something delicious, ask for the recipe! Or offer to trade a recipe!

Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.

Part of being really objective about your trade, your music, or your art is recognizing that you might not know everything about it.

I believe if we and the Mexicans make a very sensible trade agreement, the Mexican peso will recover quite a lot.

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.

Like coal, capitalism has brought many benefits. But, like coal, it now causes more harm than good.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.

Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.

Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them.

Beggars do not work, it is said; but, then, what is WORK? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course--but, then, many reputable trades are quite useless.