Quotes About Commerce

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

International trade note: the American is a gentle guy; but don't pressure him; if you do he turns toad and squirts poison.

La Samaritaine and the Cognacqs were also thriving.

over a hundred towns had combined together in what was called the "Hanseatic League." This

Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.

Capitalism existed in China, India, Babylon, in the classic world, and in the Middle Ages.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged.

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

The selling of food matters as much as the food itself… if not more.

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

It was amazing how fast things were accomplished in a society run by commercial concerns and not much else.

The given - forgive me - what is marketable, is only given - forgive me - is only sold in and through language. [...] Triumphant, the word redeems anything that could lend taste or aroma and transubstantiates it into something seen and read and heard, the channels that are peculiar to it. This - what you eat and drink - is the body and blood of the word. Here - where you buy it - lies the grave of bread and wine, body and blood, dead and resuscitated as messages.

Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

Tähtitieteilijäin ja matemaatikkojen pieni joukko eli omaa hajamielistä elämäänsä luentosalissaan halveksien syvästi kauppalaskennon ja maanmittauksen luennoille rientäviä nousukkaita.

Search marketing: If they can't find it, they can't buy it.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

You're buying into this celebrity bullshit? Don't you know it's all a facile celebration of commerce and mediocrity?

All right, all right, so I love Lubbock. I never claimed to have exquisite taste. I'll be there with the diehards to the end, trying to explain, "No, this is a griddle with some Monopoly houses on it: this is Lubbock." Still, the life of all us Lubbock-lovers would be a lot easier if the Chamber of Commerce hadn't adopted the slogan "Keep Lubbock Beautiful." Keep?

The manorial system, widespread in the West from Charlemagne's time onward, was not at first favorable to the development of agriculture and commerce. Manors tended to be self-sufficient; the economy was closed. Men lived in their small world, in constant fear of the strange world beyond, from which came only evil. The best they could hope for was to endure, and they endured.

negocios ahora, ¿de acuerdo?

Exchange is the lifeblood, not only of our economy, but of civilization itself.

The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, regulating the railroads, was one of the first federal regulatory acts in American history. The Act began with a bill introduced in the House by Democratic Representative James H. Hopkins of Pittsburgh, in 1876 at the behest of a group of independent oil producers of western Pennsylvania.