Quotes About Commerce

It is an old remark, that all arts and sciences have a mutual dependence upon each other... Thus men, very different in genius and pursuits, become mutually subservient to each other; and a very useful kind of commerce is established by which the old arts are improved, and new ones daily invented.

Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the noblest work of an Englishman.

For the various necessaries of life are not easily carried about, and hence men agreed to employ in their dealings with each other something which was intrinsically useful and easily applicable to the purposes of life, for example, iron, silver, and the like. Of this the value was at first measured by size and weight, but in process of time they put a stamp upon it, to save the trouble of weighing and to mark the value.

Don't you know that you can skin the bear in the forest, but you can't sell its hide there?

Valor não é quanto uma coisa custa, rapaz. Isso é lenda. Valor é quanto alguém está disposto a pagar. Ou ser pago

The world was a marketplace, and people were either buyers or sellers.

In my opinion, what the country needs, first and foremost, is a good, sound, business-like conduct of its affairs. What we need is—a business administration !

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

Through America's ports and harbors flow billions of dollars of products made by others, and sold in America for consumption by Americans. In 2007 the trade deficit was $712 Billion dollars. That's almost three-quarters of a Trillion dollars. Of the total U.S. international waterborne trade, the United States imports approximately 76 percent of value of its total trade, and exports 24 percent.

Since the total amount of imported goods flowing onto our shores is over a Trillion dollars, we can understand why the world will be shaken to its core when the world's largest buyer of its goods is no longer buying.

Commerce in itself may favour peace, but when commerce is artificially shut out by a decree of Government from some promising territory, then commerce just as naturally favours war.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

Doesn't water still come up through the tap?" she asked. "Capitalism marches on, Dot. What good is free water when you can pay a hotel three dollars a bottle?" "And people are okay with this?" "Of course. America's love affair with commerce never cools." "If you tell me they're still reading Ayn Rand I may spit.

Poetry is a lot harder to sell than corn.

furs, walrus tusks ('fish teeth'), slaves, wax, honey, amber.

Commerce is like war; its result is patent. Do you make money or do you not make it? There is as little appeal from figures as from battle.

Consumerism is honest, and teaches us that everything good has a barcode.

All the sensations which a woman yields to her lover, she gives in exchange; they return to her always intensified; they are as rich in what they give as in what they receive. This is the kind of commerce in which almost all husbands end by being bankrupt.

Those deterrents—the brotherhood of socialists, the interlocking of finance, commerce, and other economic factors—which had been expected to make war impossible failed to function when the time came. Nationhood, like a wild gust of wind, arose and swept them aside. People

Expenditure of money by commoners pained the nobles not least because they saw it benefiting the merchant class rather than themselves.

The wealth of Venice and Genoa was made in trade with infidels of Syria and Egypt despite papal prohibition.

It is another advantage of history, that it stores the mind with facts that apply to most subjects which occur in conversation among enlightened people. Whether morals, commerce, languages, polite literature be the object of discussion, it is history that must supply her large storehouse of proofs and illustrations.