Quotes About Commerce

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal.

Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.

prices are not costs. Prices are what pay for costs.

As late as 1912, Britain carried more than half the goods shipped across the seas of the

Most of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were purchased, rather than captured, by Europeans.

for centuries much of the world's international trade was carried in ships that sailed past West Africa on their way between Europe and Asia around the southern tip of the continent.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

Tavernier 1925: I:105; Hambly 1982: 438–42.

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest. (A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.)

More and more of our imports come from overseas.

From "Ships" The marketplaces of the Imagination have shops that are grand and opulent, but not of any great duration. Their transactions are brief, they dispose of their merchandise swiftly, and they are immediately liquidated.

Every place in West, it seemed, was always for sale.

I have this principle about money that overrides my other life rules," he said. "Do what people are willing to pay for.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

Advertising is the life of trade.

The business of America is business.

The Business of Our Firm is Business" -Donald W. Hudspeth from: "The Business of America is Business" -Calvin Coolidge

The chief business of the American people is business.

The signs of older times could still be seen on the facades of sealed buildings: Gap, Starbucks, Abercrombie & Fitch - merchants that had sold things people didn't necessarily need but always wanted.

Limited Access. Today, 1.7 billion people are unbanked, making it very challenging for them to obtain loans and to operate in the world of internet commerce.

Manchester's disciples believed that paradise was an international bazaar. They favoured the international flow of goods and ideas and the creation of institutions that channeled that flow and the abolition of institutions that blocked it. Nations, they argued, now grow richer though commerce than though conquest.