Quotes About Commerce

The goal of advertising is to sell more stuff to more people more often for more money

He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.

Previously there were small shops because it was a small town. Now there are small shops because the tourists want to think they are still in that little town, which has vanished.

The market is a system of mass cooperation.

The market is a system of mass cooperation. You compete with rival producers, sure, but you cooperate with your customers, your suppliers and your colleagues. Commerce both needs and breeds trust.

For barter to work, two individuals do not need to offer things of equal value. Trade is often unequal, but still benefits both sides.

Fundamentally, other animals do not do barter.

Free-market commerce is the only system of human organisation yet devised where ordinary people are in charge – unlike feudalism, communism, fascism, slavery and socialism.

Countries where commerce thrives have far less violence than countries where it is suppressed. Does

Imports are Christmas morning; exports are January's MasterCard bill. P.J. O'ROURKE

if commercial behaviour might make people more moral.

But is trade made possible by the milk of human kindness, or the acid of human self-interest?

What is miraculous is that in modern society you can trust and be trusted by a shopkeeper you do not know.

It is the customer who determines what a business is.

True barter requires that you give up something you value in exchange for something else you value slightly more.

Without trade, innovation just does not happen. Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution. It stimulates novelty.

the beauty of commerce is that when it works it rewards people for solving other people's problems. It is 'best understood as an evolutionary system, constantly creating and trying out new solutions to problems in a similar way to how evolution works in nature. Some solutions are "fitter" than others. The fittest survive and propagate. The unfit die.

To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort.

I shall answer all the questions you are afraid to ask me openly. Do I wish to pay my workers more than their services are worth to me? I do not. Do I wish to sell my product for less than my customers are willing to pay me? I do not. Do I wish to sell it at a loss or give it away? I do not.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade

Making products we sell around the world, stamped with three proud words, 'Made in the USA!

But that isn't all!" Caris broke in, distressed at the sadness in the old man's voice. "There is more in the world than—than money in the pockets of the merchants and machines to make things to sell! Isn't there?