Quotes About Commerce

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Every man lives by exchanging.

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public

Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

Most people don't realize how regulated the pawn industry is, especially where I'm at in Nevada.

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

More people are using PayPal more frequently.

When a club pays money it's because it's his value in the market.

Permanent bonds of culture began to be formed between the extreme East and the extreme West of Europe by intermarriage, by commerce, by the admission of the nobles of Byzantium within the orders of chivalry.

Perdagangan membikin orang terbebas dari pangkat-pangkat, tak membeda-bedakan sesama manusia, apakah dia pembesar atau bawahan, bahkan budak pun. Pedagang berpikiran cepat. Mereka menghidupkan yang beku dan menggiatkan yang lumpuh

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Should you speak to a man who understands commerce, he will tell you that the everyday business transacted by merchants would be absolutely impossible were it not based on mutual confidence. The habit of keeping his word, the desire not to lose his credit, amply suffice to maintain this relative honesty.

When this organization of politics and commerce, whose other name is the Nation, becomes all-powerful at the cost of the harmony of the higher social life, then it is an evil day for humanity

Shopping would be a relationship between the customer and the goods, with nothing and no one mediating between them.

Self-service' puts all classes on the same shopping level, doing the work for themselves; the

Every record store and record chain has folded; they don't exist. They do not exist. And the only two outlets that would still sell CDs were Best Buy and Wal-Mart. They now have stopped selling it. There's nowhere you can go into a store and buy a CD in America. That's how it is.

You can't walk into Wal-Mart and just walk out with a TV - you can't just download a TV. So don't go and download the Jadakiss album without paying for it. It cost money to make that album, dude.