Quotes About Trade

I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.

People have looked at all sorts of effects of globalization and blamed trade. But it's lots of things.

We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.

The shipping industry plays a fundamental role in boosting global trade and prosperity. Maritime leaders have rightly recognised the need to invest in more energy-efficient vessels and to apply measures like slow-steaming. But to ensure a level playing field, collective action is urgently needed across the sector.

One great pleasure of being an academic is the ability to trade in ideas with your colleagues and students; it is not much fun being the only connoisseur of some fine point.

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.

The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

Trade plays an important role in empowering our nation, growing its economy, creating domestic jobs, and enhancing American competitiveness in the global chain of commerce.

If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.

A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.

Growing up, I had a sense of the importance of commerce and trade to everyday life. Our family lived in several countries, and I was fascinated by the free exchange of goods and services between individuals and companies - the way both parties could benefit.

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

When America closes its doors, so does everybody else. We are the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the building trade, I worked in a builders' merchants in Stoke.

A country the size of Brazil can't be held back by Mercosur to do trade with the rest of the world.

Actors should remember they are public servants, really, and depend on the response of the people. And the public can be so fickle. That's why now I'm glad to be working in my trade.

If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

I believe in free markets. I believe in free trade. I believe in creating the conditions that will allow that to happen. And if we do that, American companies are going to be pretty darn competitive.

Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.