Quotes About Commerce

It's very difficult to run a business when you're buying something for $5 and selling it for $10.

I believe in capitalism as long as there's a strong rule of law around it.

Cash is king in Africa.

Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days.

Selling online is one channel, but it's not the only channel.

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.

I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn't mean that there aren't short-term discomforts and adjustments.

I will do a chocolate deal for product only. No need for money.

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.

To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we kick off a merchant, we're asserting our own moral code as the superior one. But who gets to define that moral code?

My own day-to-day observations confirm that many Americans can barely make change. At the supermarket where I buy groceries, I've watched more than one encounter at the cash register where both customer and clerk are befuddled at the prospect of double-checking the sums.

Remember, restaurateurs are only shopkeepers; that's all we are. It's no different from the supermarket down the road.

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.

I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.

When I was asked if I supported merging SBA into Commerce, I really wasn't focused on SBA or Commerce; I was focused on the concept of merging agencies, or reducing duplicative programs, so that we could reduce those costs. I am a firm believer that SBA needs to be a stand-alone agency.

We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

If trade deficits are good, why is China so pleased that they run a huge trade surplus? It's perfectly obvious that if China hadn't been such a huge net-exporter, it never would have grown at the rate that it did.

If you step back and think about it, just a little over two years ago, in 2009, it was not surprising at all to see Chinese exports growing at a 30-plus percent clip.