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Quotes About Commerce

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.
~ Ruben Blades
Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.
~ Ronnie Apteker
In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
While the WTO negotiations will continue, there are other trade negotiations of a bilateral nature, which among other things, should help to open up these markets for South African products.
~ Thabo Mbeki
Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!
~ Thomas Paine
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
~ Thomas Paine
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.
~ Richard Cobden
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
~ Daniel Boone
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
~ Richard Cobden
Peace might sell, but who's buying?
~ Joan Baez
Give and take is business not bhakti
~ Radhe Maa
My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.
~ Sophia Amoruso
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.
~ Henry David Thoreau
And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.
~ Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.
~ John Dryden
No one ever expects poetry to sell...
~ Alan Lightman
You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.
~ Chris Cooper
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
~ Jasper Fforde
The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.
~ Hugh Laurie
Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.
~ Ryan Lilly
World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Sell your materials but save your morals.
~ Amit Kalantri
Het eerste waar Nederlanders aan denken, als ze iets willen verkrijgen dat hun eigen land niet oplevert, is niet het zelf te gaan maken, maar het te zoeken in den vreemde.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
the splendid future of an Independent South." "Stimulate domestic manufacturing & local commerce," said Davis. Thus Charleston and New Orleans would vie with Boston and New York as commercial centers. Though Davis was only reiterating his oft-expressed wish for economic
~ William C. Davis