Quotes About Commerce

In capitalist terms, art is a global marketplace and artistic labour is too.

A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the hysteria about the Web. But now they want to know how you make money selling a 1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web.

Funny thing about payment is that it isn't the buyer of the goods or services that gets to set it. It's the seller. That's me.

Den Weltmarkt erobern«: Weil Händler so sprachen, mußten Krieger so handeln. Seitdem wird erobert, wenngleich nicht der Weltmarkt.

War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

The new business model for America is clearly recognizable. Its dominant feature is the merger of government, real estate, and commerce into a single structure, tightly controlled at the top. It is the same model used in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Communist China.

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

I have this old-fashioned idea that art and commerce are at war.

The hotel has turned into a supermarket of sleep.

American trade represented one third of the British economy).

a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama.

he's sold all on 'em but one, and that one he's trying to sell to-night, cause to-morrow's Sunday, and it would not do to be sellin' human heads about the streets when folks is goin' to churches.

CHAPTER 92 Ambergris Now this ambergris is a very curious substance, and so important as an article of commerce, that in 1791 a certain Nantucket-born Captain Coffin was examined at the bar of the English House of Commons on that subject.

there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

During the last 3,000 years, long-distance trading cultures have steadily conquered, displaced, absorbed, or erased indigenous clans less enthusiastic about peddling wares across wide stretches of both sea and land.

The Constitution was a compromise between slaveholding interests of the South and moneyed interests of the North. For the purpose of uniting the thirteen states into one great market for commerce, the northern delegates wanted laws regulating interstate commerce, and urged that such laws require only a majority of Congress to pass. The South agreed to this, in return for allowing the trade in slaves to continue for twenty years before being outlawed.

The business of America is business,' said Calvin Coolidge

It's hard to sell merchandise off YouTube.

We want more of our products going overseas, but the trick is to have a level playing field.

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.

Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took in international goods worth $1.73 trillion, or eighty times the value of all U.S. trade in 1960.

We're already in a trade war with China. The problem is we've not been fighting back. Trump, through tariffs, wants to call a truce.