Quotes About Commerce

It was a masterpiece. Nobody bought it. (re: Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844)

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

At Rome, the price of goods soared.

Rather than being an impediment, NASA can and should be the driver of commerce, the provider of the technology necessary to make some big money in space. The truth is that private enterprise already has a huge presence up there.

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

The framers never intended an infinitely broad Commerce Clause that would let Congress dictate individuals' purchases.

Were you a merchant, would you settle yourself in a rich or poor neighborhood? You would not be so blind as to locate yourself among persons who would not be able to purchase your goods. So with nations with whom we trade.

I am for a transactional tax at the point of purchase for both online and physical retail.

Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU - purchases that British importers make in euros.

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

The world of commerce is a kind of a purgatory itself.

In a perfect world, art and commerce, I think, could be in vacuums and coexist in full purity.

Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

I love food, and the food industry is huge, and I just love dealing in it.

In so many ways, our business is very, very unique. For example, in India, people pay with cash, and we accept cash from day one. And a lot of people in India pay with cash. And that's part of our business model.

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.

We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.

I do haggle. It's easier when you buy in bulk, so I will up my arms and then tell them what I think I should pay. We go back and forth until we find something we are both happy with.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

San Francisco is not a boutique - it's a center of commerce.

Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell as much as you can.