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Quotes About Commerce

Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and groomed, and shaped, and washed clean, and put on display as if the whole city was for sale.
~ John Lanchester
I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.
~ John Malkovich
With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Today's mercantile society exploits the will to jouissance so as to repress it all the more.
~ Élisabeth Roudinesco
Inventory is all the money that the system has invested in purchasing things which it intends to sell." I
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Quick, ruthless, but not prone to long-term strategy-that was the Charter Trade Company.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I don't engage in murdering sentients for commerce," I said. "Case closed." "You're programmed not to," she admitted. "That's not ethics. I want to know the real you." There was a pause while she examined her fingernails. "Unless you're afraid of what you'll learn.
~ Elizabeth Bear
trying to peddle its pots and pans at the door of this house.
~ Elizabeth Knox
the commercial stage represents the greatest change from the past.
~ Arthur Herman
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner
~ Arthur Herman
with commerce and industry had come literacy for Europe's new urban middle class.
~ Arthur Herman
Britain was "the nation of shopkeepers," a phrase that was not meant to flatter.
~ Arthur Herman
Por otra parte, conseguir que una sociedad de hidalgos o que pretendía serlo (Hasta los zapateros y los sastres presumen de cristianos viejos y pasean espada al cinto, escribía Quevedo) se pusiera a trabajar en la agricultura, en la ganadería, en el comercio, en las mismas actividades que estaban ya enriqueciendo a los estados más modernos de Europa, era pedir peras al olmo, honradez a un escribano o caridad a un inquisidor.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
~ August Strindberg
Sixteen pages! Full sixteen pages! If you don't want to read, use it to make paper bags.Sell the paper pabs and earn a profit. Here comes today's Daily...
~ aziz nesin
Commerce brings this mingling of ideas, this breaking down of old creeds, and brings it inevitably.
~ bagehot walter iv
Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to see American businesses.
~ Mo Ibrahim
Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.
~ William Graham Sumner
Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.
~ Joseph Hume
Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.
~ Michael Oxley
It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.
~ Blythe Masters
Sea freight is by far the cheapest, most economical way to move goods.
~ Soren Skou
Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
~ P. J. O'Rourke