Quotes About Commerce

If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.

America wins when we trade and export and import.

Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

Texas has an established trade office in Mexico City, as do other Texan cities. They have a more mature trade relationship with Mexico, and I want to make Arizona a leader in this area also.

Texas is made for trade.

Let me tell you something... If you're anybody - not just me, but anybody - and you can put an oven that doesn't work at all on eBay and sign your name on it and sell it for 1200 bucks, and somebody will drive from Seattle to Dallas, Texas, to get it, that's pretty cool.

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.

Mycenaean traders at the time were exchanging goods all over the Mediterranean.

Evangelical support for Prohibition and worries about "godless communism" during the Cold War pushed evangelicals toward the political right during the twentieth century. Opposition on the part of some to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal led to attenuated suspicions of capitalism and eventually to an embrace of commerce.

Come inside," it says, "for CD's, VIDEO's, DVD's, and BOOK's.

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

L'oppio inonderà il mercato come un diluvio monsonico

They are very greedy. You always have to pay bribes. If they want to buy this glass you tell them it's five dollars. They will beat you down to one dollar, then they will say, "OK I will give you $3, but you give me $2 back!

Excuse me, Pinchy," I say quickly (before he can start a third verse), "but isn't everything in the Two-Dollar Shop always only two dollars?

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

Buying is much more American than thinking.

Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.

the surplus products must be laden on board the vessels.

You're not negotiating for Wal-Mart, you're negotiating for your customer. And your customer deserves the best price you can get. Don't ever feel sorry for a vendor. He knows what he can sell for, and we want his bottom price.

There is something aesthetically pleasing about trading one engraving - and old map - for another - American money.

If something is legal and profitable, it will happen, a lot.

The turpitude, the inhumanity, the cruelty, and the infamy of the African commerce in slaves have been so impressively represented to the public by the highest powers of eloquence that nothing that I can say would increase the just odium in which it is and ought to be held. Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States.

containerization has had a greater impact on global trade than all GATT talks combined.