Quotes About Commerce

Like all shopkeepers, they are deep-down optimists. They have to be, because every morning they unlock the doors to their stores, turn on the lights, prepare for the day, and wait for people to walk in and hand them money.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

cuando el comercio se muestra en su desnudez espantosa. Las cortinas metálicas tienen rigideces agresivas

Artists and whores, gold always bought them. An artist was no more than a whore who had been well-paid.

The Chalcedean slave trade had largely created the pirates and their settlements.

Why hire what you could buy outright? That seemed to be the philosophy here in the slavemart, yet Wintrow wondered how those shopping for slaves could not see themselves in their faces, or recognize one's neighbors. No one else seemed disturbed by it... It seemed that, in the eyes of the buyers, a failure of finances instantly changed a man from a friend or neighbor into merchandise.

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

Wild strawberries fit the definition of gift, but grocery store berries do not. It's the relationship between producer and consumer that changes everything. As a gift-thinker, I would be deeply offended if I saw wild strawberries in the grocery store. I would want to kidnap them all. They were not meant to be sold, only to be given.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

I'm still not strictly rational. How could I be? I sell books.

control the flow of gold into and out of the United States.

During the summer months, he could send oil by water, greatly enhancing his bargaining power with the railroads.

Both Jefferson and Adams detested people who earned a living shuffling financial paper, and when Adams launched a bitter tirade in later years against the iniquitous banking system, Jefferson agreed that the business was "an infinity of successive felonious larcenies." 9 That banks could serve any economic purpose—that they could generate prosperity that might enrich the few but also lubricate the wheels of commerce—seemed alien to both men.

Rebates had inevitably accompanied railroad expansion.

Part of the difficulty in accepting the good news about trade is in our words. We too often talk about trade while using the vocabulary of war. In war, for one side to win, the other must lose. But commerce is not warfare. Trade is an economic alliance that benefits both countries. There are no losers, only winners; and trade helps strengthen the free world.

Pack at the price of a bull's life.

Not merely in the realm of commerce but in the world of ideas as well our age is organizing a regular clearance sale. Everything is to be had at such a bargain that it is questionable whether in the end there is anybody who will want to bid.

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

Bien sabéis, caballero -contestó-, que en el comercio no hay amigos, sino socios.

The Package is the Product, onomatopoeticized

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.