Quotes About Commerce

Wylie: If you don't like advice, why do you pay me? Stahr: That's a question of merchandise. I'm a merchant. I want to buy what's in your mind.

We want to be able to do business in China. I know a lot of American businesses and farmers want to as well.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

I liked business. I found it fascinating.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

There is a certain amount of commerce in the film industry in as much as you have value, and for a moment, your value goes up, then it all disappears again.

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo.

I want to be a fair trader. I want to be a firm and fair trader.

I'm a firm believer in the circle of commerce.

A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

For more than a century, New York City has been home to a constellation of department stores whose openings, closings, and transformations have charted the fortunes and foibles of the city itself.

He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.

I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?

So much of our society has gone completely digital. Today, you can attend school, buy TVs, plan a vacation, and pay your bills electronically. Why not bring comic books into the digital realm?

If you have a choice between buying something in Vietnam or China or buying something made in Virginia, why not buy it from people in Virginia? A lot of times, it's not much more expensive or may even be less.

You do not need to be within the single market to be able to export to the European Union, as we see from the wide range of goods on our shelves every day.

I went to uni, and I studied commerce on a scholarship, and that was crazy and wild in and of itself.

I think if you put people in front of some huge temptation where it's possible to grab as much as they can for themselves, almost everyone will. The beauty of commerce is that it mutes that. The chap behind the counter in the corner shop has no interest in short-changing you, because he wants you to come back.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.