Quotes About Commerce

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Giving up something for something else is commerce; giving up something for nothing is a sacrifice.

You can't buy it, but it has a price," said Oryx. "Everything has a price.

Suppose I told you about the income from body parts? Organs, bones, DNA, whatever's in demand. That's one of the big earners for this place.

Smiles were hard; they could turn into grimaces or leers, but if you got a smile right, they'd spend extra for it. Amazing to remember, now, what people would once spend extra for.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

And too often, that purpose is simply a backward way of saying, "I'd like to sell more of what I've already decided to sell.

historian William Dalrymple quotes a Mughal official named Narayan Singh as asking after 1765, 'when we have to take orders from a handful of traders who have not yet learned to wash their bottoms?

had exported an average of £13,000,000 worth of goods to Britain each year from 1835 to 1872 with no corresponding return of money; in fact, payments to people residing in Britain, whether profits to Company shareholders, dividends to railway investors or pensions to retired officials, made up a loss of £30 million a year.

Advertising is the life blood of the digital economy.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

Business is the real test of the moral life.

It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.

Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Pointing out the possible, and expensive, entanglements that could come with widespread commercial enterprise, the author calculates the Great Britain was at war half the time between 1689 and 1783.

To a Skandian, my boy, all war is business.

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