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Quotes About Commerce

We're not so naïve that we don't know your merchants are just outposts of your way of life. We know what follows them.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
But you did well to turn cash into these trinkets. The oren is weak and the cost of stones in Wyzim isn't high; it's too near to the dwarves' mines in Mahakam. If you sell those in Novigrad, you'll get at least five hundred Novigrad crowns, and the crown, at present, stands at six and a half orens and is going up.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Victory should look thus: the defeated are compelled to buy goods manufactured by the victors. Why, they do it willingly, because the victors' goods are better and cheaper. The victors' currency is stronger than the currency of the defeated, and the vanquished trust it much more than their own. Do you understand me, Baron Fitz-Oesterlen? Are you beginning slowly to differentiate the victors from the vanquished? Do you comprehend whom woe actually betides?
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Money has no fatherland, Geralt. The merchants don't care whose rule they make their money under.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
~ Andy Warhol
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
~ Anita Brookner
This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.
~ Michael Rosbash
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
~ Alan Alda
Mobile devices, high-speed data communication, and online commerce are creating expectations that convenient, secure, real-time payment and banking capabilities should be available whenever and wherever they are needed.
~ Jerome Powell
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
~ Thomas Jefferson
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
~ Alexander McQueen
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
~ Walter Bagehot
Everything is for sale if the price is right.
~ Lucio Tan
I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.
~ Klaus Kinski
I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.
~ Joanna Lumley
I still don't believe that all pieces of music are the same price. I just don't think that's America.
~ Kid Rock
If the price is right, I will sell anything.
~ Rick Harrison
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
~ John Buchanan Robinson
Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use.
~ Gordon Brown
Kolkata is a place where you can pretty much find everything. From traditional wear to western wear - you name it and you will get it - that too at pocket friendly prices.
~ Mimi Chakraborty
Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
~ Dana Rohrabacher
The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.
~ Theo de Raadt