Quotes About Commerce

when merchants and traders begin to run wars – hundreds of lives depend on bribes.

Aliz sighed. "War is terrible, isn't it?" "It blights the landscape, throttles commerce and industry, kills the innocent and rewards the guilty, thrusts honest men into poverty and lines the pockets of profiteers, and in the end produces nothing but corpses, monuments and tall tales.

Nincs természeti er?, ami nagyobb veszélyt jelentene az emberéletre és a kereskedelemre, mint egy megbízatás nélküli zsoldossereg. Kivéve talán egy megbízatással rendelkez? zsoldossereget.

What makes cities great, and what leads to their gradual demise? As this book will argue, three critical factors have determined the overall health of cities— the sacredness of place, the ability to provide security and project power, and last, the animating role of commerce.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

If you want to change the world, change it through the market

Globalization is a fact of economic life

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

In his book, Jüdisches Erwerbsleben, Georg Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI's great uncle, wrote: "Jewish commerce can be characterized by two manifestations: 1) it is based on the exploitation of the work of others without any productive activity of its own and 2) it is characterized by gambling and speculation on the differential in values as the way to achieve riches.

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

Cheap, sentimental things

Young man, there is America—which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth; invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

Wilderness, wilderness...We scarcely know what we mean by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have not been irreparably stunned, deadened, numbed by the caterwauling of commerce, the sweating scramble for profit and domination.

Wilderness, wilderness.… We scarcely know what we mean by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have not yet been irreparably stunned, deadened, numbed by the caterwauling of commerce, the sweating scramble for profit and domination.

Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

An American credit card… is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

Make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

Whose merchants are princes.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.

Caveat emptor [Let the buyer beware].

The new world of communication is a blessing for the citizens of the world trained to think critically and knowledgeable about history. But what about citizens who have been seduced by the world of life as entertainment and commerce? They have been educated, in good part, by a world in which negative emotional provocation is the rule rather than the exception and where the best solutions for a problem have to do primarily with short-term self-interests. Can they really be blamed?