Quotes About Commerce

Peace might sell, but who's buying?

counter. 'That will be sixpence, Mr Collins,

Geertruyt Schoudt was not the first person Hendrick Jan Wynants had sold to that day. He offered her the Switsers at a discount: she could have them for 50 guilders less than he had sold similar ones to "doctor Plas"- Gregorius van der Plas, the city doctor-that is, for A400 instead of Plas' fl,45o. But Schoudt was not buying.

That was the experience of the baker Jeuriaen Jansz, whom we have already encountered. In late May or early June 1636 he bought the offset of an Admirael Lieffkens-a flower that happened to be standing in the garden of Marten Kretser in Amsterdam-from the shopkeeper Heinrick Bartelsz.

Bartholomeus van Rijn, thirty-six, had bought a Coornhart and a Blijenburger from Double in the "dry bulb time" between flowering and replanting of the bulbs in the early autumn.

Who thought of money?

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American Express? . . . That'll do nicely, sir.

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

The word 'commercial' implies a notion of profit.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.

Go find out if you can make your product. Once you make it, stop projecting what's going to happen and go find out whether your product can sell. Find out whether someone is willing to take hard-earned cash out of their pocket and exchange it for your product.

I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.

It's amazing how many countries run their embassies as commercial outposts to promote businessmen from their country.

We have to learn to live with fewer imports and more exports, promoting national production.

To guard and to deal with others' goods as one's own is considered as the mark of proper trade among merchants.

The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used.

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.

The DOJ has long considered the SEC an indispensable partner in protecting markets and investors, promoting lawful commerce around the world, and deterring misconduct.

Strong encryption enables commerce and protects us online.

I think it was iTunes that first proved that people would spend money to get things they really wanted.

These men must die to make a world for Hooper; they were the aborigines, vermin by right of law, to be shot at leisure so that things might be safe for the travelling salesmen.

A returned battalion of the National Guard paraded through the streets with open ranks for their dead and then stepped down out of romance forever and sold you things over the counters of local stores.