Quotes About Commerce

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.

Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.

How is it possible, in this wondrous land where the relics of genius and enterprise confront you at every step, where every realm of human possibility has been probed and challenged and meticulously extended, where many of the very greatest accomplishments of industry, commerce, and the arts find their seat—how is it possible in such a place that when at length I returned to my hotel and switched on the television, it was Cagney & Lacey again?

With the canal, the cost of shipping a ton of flour from Buffalo to New York City fell from $120 a ton to $6 a ton, and the carrying time was reduced from three weeks to just over one. The effect on New York's fortunes was breathtaking. Its share of national exports leaped from less than 10 percent in 1800 to over 60 percent by the middle of the century; in the same period, even more dazzlingly, its population went from ten thousand to well over half a million.

He invested heavily in an automated general store in which customers would put a coin in a slot and a moment later a bag of coal, potatoes, onions, nails, hairpins, or other desired commodity would come sliding down a chute to them. The system never worked. It never came close to working.

Forty-two percent of all that was produced in the world was produced in the United States.

In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.

I--buy, and I sell. You're a thief.

I am a Trader and proud of it. We know that some accounts are written in blood and can be paid only in that. You have blood depts to settle.

And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.

but the force of traditions, as in all crumbling empires, grows proportionately with the explicit revelation, in the machinery of government and commerce alike, of the preponderant action of all principles of inertia...

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

It's my impression that investment in Europe is done for the right reasons. Europe is a very good place to do business; it's a large market.

There are bridges that we have built not only between individual companies but also between associations. This will keep business and investments flowing.

While U.S. investments in India are growing, we also need Indian investments in America.

The state of Israel will stand as one entity against any attempt to boycott its products.

I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.

It is interesting to speculate whether commercial capitalism was thereby smothered in its crib in Egypt, just at a moment when it was beginning to take off in other places such as Italy, the Netherlands, and England.24 On

Do the thousands of 'cross-bucks' at railroad crossings across our nation memorialize any exchange of 'dollars'?

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.