Quotes About Commerce

Among the chartered responsibilities of the federal government were, in those areas where appropriate - such as facilitating interstate commerce - to provide for justice and domestic tranquility, the common defense, and to secure the blessings of liberty.

The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

Trade transcends party lines here in Washington, and it unifies stakeholders across the globe.

The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.

We understand U.S. position, but we have to find a way to make trade translate into better jobs in North America.

The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.

There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.

Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

A VISIT TO THE STOCK EXCHANGE

Free trade is meaningless unless there is also fair trade.

But free trade is meaningless unless there is also fair trade.

Because in a business like that what your customers are buying is not your business's ability to give them what they want but your ability to give them what they want. And that's what's wrong with it!

It went that way with much of what they needed to buy: some companies sought to exploit the moment; others sought to help. "We quickly figured out that some companies actually have a moral compass and some of them don't," said Joe.

Of the roughly $9 billion spent each year by the Commerce Department, $5 billion goes to NOAA, and the bulk of that money is spent, one way or another, on figuring out the weather. Each and every day, NOAA collects twice as much data as is contained in the entire book collection of the Library of Congress.

like so many United States government agencies, the Department of Commerce is seriously misnamed. It has almost nothing to do with commerce directly and is actually forbidden by law from engaging in business. But it runs the United States Census, the only real picture of who Americans are as a nation.

I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.

There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.

A few months ago, a friend emailed to simply ask, 'Do you get a piece of this?' The message included a link to a site selling T-shirts emblazoned with 'Directed by Robert B. Weide.' My wife soon ordered two.

All's fair in love and purchasing.

I love the U.S. I love doing business there.