Quotes About Trade

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

We need to tell better stories of men and women who master a trade. We have to stop telling kids to blindly follow their passion and show them the opportunities that exist. That was the big, overarching message of 'Dirty Jobs.'

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely cannot be our goal.

In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies.

Trade, tourism, cultural exchange, and participation in international institutions all serve to erode the legitimacy of repressive regimes.

The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.

Benjamin Franklin once said, 'A people who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.' I think we can have both. We can keep our liberties. We can have our security.

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.

During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions - prime ministers, presidents and chief executives - and so I'm all too aware of the risks and dangers of poor choices in the public as well as the private sphere.

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade.

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.