Quotes About Commerce

Under this system, nonliving things, such as industries and products, are often valued more than living organisms, such as ecosystems and basic human health. The development of industry and commerce at the cost of life has crippled humankind, without exception to one's place in the social hierarchy.

doing what Americans had always done: profit as best they could from whatever commercial circumstances presented themselves.

the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches of show business, where the overriding objective is getting and satisfying an audience.

No one says a word. It's like a moment of silence for the many kids lost to that great unwinding machine. The industry, as Sonia had called it. A mill of commerce trafficking in flesh, working outside the realm of ethics yet within the law and within the complete consent of society.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

For I know that all things have their price,especially when they are advertised as being free

The countless fish bones in inland Caral and Huaricanga and the fruit seeds and cotton nets in shoreline Aspero are evidence that they swapped one for the other.

that both sides of an uncoerced exchange gain from it.

They also carried on commerce with other nations. All this clearly shows, as Heer has remarked, that they had at this early age progressed considerably in civilisation; and this again implies a long continued previous period of less advanced civilisation, during which the domesticated animals, kept by different tribes in different districts, might have varied and given rise to distinct races.

La mayor parte del dinero proviene de las ventas más pequeñas».

When I was involved in the initial creation of the Department of Homeland Security, we were given a clear twofold mission. The first part of the mission was to secure our borders. The second was to maintain the free and efficient flow of commerce and people.

Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity.

In the environment of the mobile Internet, there is value and need to explore every commercial context. What I care about is not just technology but the changes in people's behavior in this environment, which makes it possible that everyone can get connected with everyone else.

Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Modern life undermines any attempt at building communities and making connections with people without commerce.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

The industry and audience always expects filmmakers to do everything morally right. Why? We are all here to do business.

Markets need morals.

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'

nothing happens until somebody sells something to someone.

Only when we began to eat cereals at the start of the agricultural revolution, and most especially when our ancestral food choices were displaced by the 'displacing foods of modern commerce', did the 'modern diseases of lifestyle' begin to emerge in ever-increasing numbers.

The bullet is already in the brain; it won't be outrun forever, or charmed to a halt. In the end it will do its work and leave the troubled skull behind, dragging its comet's tail of memory and hope and talent and love into the marble hall of commerce. That can't be helped. But for now Anders can still make time