Quotes About Commerce

Everybody steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot myself. But I know how to steal. Thomas Edison, 1847-1931

When people decided you were better at trade than they, they not only grew jealous, they became stubborn and tried to demand ridiculous bargains. And sometimes you had no alternative save to accept.

It's all taking the customer's money and giving him exactly what he wants and then leaving him poorer than when he started.

The retailers want you to shop and browse.

A careful regulation of the economic impulses of society was considered as essential to man's spiritual welfare as it was to his material well-being. There was a righteous price in commerce, based on considerations of morality, as well as an economic price, reflecting the laws of supply and demand.

You will find superconducting wire and fabric stored aboard the lander. It is not the same superconductor the Ringworld used. The bacterium will not touch it. I thought we might need trade goods.

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits.

It is because the moral economy has little need of the market that market forces are up in arms against it.

Many of our subjects eagerly lust after Portuguese merchandise that your subjects have brought into our domains. To satisfy this inordinate appetite, they seize many of our black free subjects. . . . They sell them . . . after having taken these prisoners [to the coast] secretly or at night. . . . As soon as the captives are in the hands of white men they are branded with a red-hot iron.

It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased;

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

The extent of the market, therefore, must for a long time be in proportion to the riches and populousness of that country, and consequently their improvement must always be posterior to the improvement of that country.

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

It is in this manner that money has become in all civilised nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another.

But without the disposition to truck, barter, and exchange, every man must have procured to himself every necessary and conveniency of life which he wanted.