Quotes About Commerce

Our business thrives on free and open global trade.

I think we have a thriving economic engine between not only the U.S. and Mexico but the U.S. and many, many other countries.

Please don't throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.

Increased fragmentation of production across international borders - a natural outgrowth of the gains from specialization - meant more trade for any given value of final production, thus adding to the major expansion in gross trade flows in the 1990s and 2000s.

I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it.

I have no problem if you bought a Justin Timberlake ticket and you decide to go sell that ticket to somebody. We would first and foremost want to make sure that the first ticket sold, that the fan has a shot to buy that ticket.

Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.

These are important markers in our engagement with South East Asia, in enhancing our strategic ties with ASEAN across 3 Cs. These 3 Cs are commerce, connectivity, and culture.

A]nything might be purchased at Rome.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau doubted it, complaining that the rise of commerce expanded hierarchies of wealth that both morally enervated the rich and fed disorder, even if they left the poor better off.

He made money in pawnbroking and moneylending, which is never nice, but also traded in goat skins – which is at least unusual.

If you go to the craft market you will see them everywhere. They represent the mix of cultures and races here in the Dominican Republic, that are the result of centuries of international commerce, colonization, conquest, and the slave trade. The facelessness means that there is no 'typical' Dominican woman.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

A few months after the great crisis I had the joy of seeing the line of caravans re-form on the banks of the Orontes; the oases were again the resort of merchants exchanging news in the glow of their evening fires, each morning repacking along with their goods for transportation to lands unknown a certain number of thoughts, words and customs genuinely our own, which little by little would take possession of the globe more securely than can advancing legions.

One of my best days was the one on which I persuaded a group of seamen from the Archipelago to join in a single corporation in order to deal directly with retailers in the towns. I have never felt myself more usefully employed as a ruler.

Among reasonable men problems of business could always be solved.

Until then he had believed they justified colonialism: Christianity, civilization, and commerce.

Toda la simpatía de Adam Smith se vuelca hacia las colonias inglesas en Norteamérica, los futuros Estados Unidos. Explica que han prosperado mucho más que las de España y Portugal porque Inglaterra les dio más libertad para producir y comerciar, a diferencia del severo control que Lisboa y Madrid imponían a sus colonias. Y, una vez más, subraya que las limitaciones al comercio constituyen «un crimen contra la humanidad».

When, in February 1885, at the Berlin Conference that not a single Congolese attended, the fourteen participating powers, headed by Great Britain, the United States, France, and Germany, graciously ceded to Leopold II—at whose side Henry Morton Stanley was a constant presence—the million square miles of the Congo and its twenty million inhabitants so that he "would open the territory to commerce, abolish slavery, and civilize and Christianize the pagans

Viking is a term—thought to have its root in the old Norse vika, meaning "to go off"—for Scandinavians who left their native land to seek wealth in commerce.

At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men.