Quotes About Commerce

Young voters may be growing up in an era of increased global connection, cooperation and commerce. But they're very open to politicians who tell them it is these very things that are keeping elites in power and keeping their generation down.

I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

Let's make what Americans buy. Buy what Americans make. And sell it to the world.

Selling art is a lot different than making it.

Selling books is hard to engineer.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

There's trade, there's sensible trade, and there's dumb trade.

Serbia is open for business.

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

When you place art in the shops, it's a way to make it more accessible.

I'm not from a retail background, but I am a shopper.

Shopkeepers are not bankers.

There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

Mortenson was merely selling what the public was eager to buy.

he hated the financial speculation that would result from the Hamiltonian vision of commerce. "It is much to be wished that every discouragement should be thrown in the way of men who undertake to trade without capital," Jefferson said.91 "The consumers pay for it in the end, and the debts contracted, and bankruptcies occasioned by such commercial adventurers, bring burden and disgrace on our country." Yet

It's great that a song now costs exactly the same as a pack of gum and lasts exactly the same amount of time before it loses its flavour and you have to spend another buck.

In a decadent society people can slowly drift or slowly be drawn by the culture of commerce into yearning for violence. Maybe people have a deep congenital awareness that no civilization lasts forever, that the most peaceful prosperity will someday have to end, or maybe it's just human nature

En mi época no había Best-Sellers y no podíamos prostituírnos. No había quien comprara nuestra prostitución.

Wherever autocratic power vanished at an early date—as in the Netherlands and later in England—and the protective interest receded into the background, they swiftly discovered that trade must be free—"free to the nethermost recesses of hell.

In the late 1850s, one Florida senator reported that US ships sailing to Angola could buy Africans for about $70 and then sell them in Cuba for almost $1,200.

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

1]In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. 2]Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. 3]The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?