Quotes About Commerce

All began in the name of Civilisation, Christianity, Commerce and then Colonisation.

England won her territories not by wars or armies, but by trade and commerce. China is following in the same footsteps.

People want peace and above all, they want pure freedom that allows them to do their business serenely.

Too much government tax erases all the truth and trust left in a businessman's head and heart.

Trade and commerce, which were used by England and now China, are the best methods to conquer the world peacefully.

Free market fundamentalists can perhaps hold to their views because often they have very little direct experience in commerce or industry. The men in our story all made their careers in programs and institutions that were either directly created by the federal government or largely funded by it.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

without dissatisfaction, there's no basis for a sale.

But as the web matured during the late 1990s, the dreams of a digital awakening went unfulfilled. The net turned out to be more about commerce than consciousness, more mall than commune. And when the new millennium arrived, it brought not a new age but a dispiritingly commonplace popping of a bubble of earthly greed.

The Web had turned out to be less the new home of Mind than the new home of Business. The

Puedes vender cielo, el cielo azul a veces, o gris también a veces, una parcela de tu cielo, el que compraste, piensas tú, con los árboles] de tu huerto, como quien compra el techo con la casa?] ¿Puedes venderme un dólar de cielo, dos kilómetros de cielo, un trozo, el que tú piensas, de tu cielo?

There can be a "boom" in petroleum or wheat, but there can't be a boom in the novel and less still in poetry.

Words are not nobilities that want their genealogical trees we traced. Words are merchants, swift and useful, now here, now there.

A book should be made like a watch and sold like a sausage.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

The history of money-getting, which is commerce, is a history of civilization, and wherever trade has flourished most, there, too, have art and science produced the noblest fruits. In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them, in a great measure, are we indebted for our institutions of learning and of art, our academies, colleges, and churches.

For Rousseau, 'the word finance is a slave's word' and freedom turns into a commodity, degrading buyer and seller alike, wherever commerce reigns. 'Financial systems make venal souls.' Their secret workings are a 'means of making pilferers and traitors, and of putting freedom and the public good upon the auction block'.

What's Wal*Mart? Is that were they sell wall stuff?

Wal-Mart, do they like, sell walls there?

Walmart...do they make walls there?

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

The tinker dealt with everyone in turn, sometimes two or three at a time. He traded sharp knives for dull ones and a small coin. He sold shears and needles, copper pots and small bottles that wives hid quickly after buying them. He traded buttons and bags of cinnamon and salt. Limes from Tinuë, chocolate from Tarbean, polished horn from Aerueh….

What would you like in trade? An answer, a favor, a secret?" - Bast

rusty, overloaded freighters from the Caribbean and Latin America.