Quotes About Commerce

Trade is part of our national security.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.

staggering. China's import of chips—$260 billion in 2017, the year of Xi's Davos debut—was far larger than Saudi Arabia's export of oil or Germany's export of cars. China spends more money buying chips each year than the entire global trade in aircraft. No product is more central to international trade than semiconductors.

When war makes commerce and commerce is law, profit rules prudence and justice is flawed.

War is the lifeblood of this merchant republic.

Stets besteche mit der höchsten Summe, die du zu zahlen bereit bist, auf der niedersten Ebene des Befehls. Groll ist Goldes wert, wenn Treue zum Verkauf steht.

Money expended in a fine navy, not only adds to our security and tends to prevent war in the future, but is very material aid to our commerce with foreign nations in the meantime. Money spent upon sea-coast defences is spent among our own people, and all goes back again among the people.

If you look at the people on this train, you will see that they are dressed much alike. The train itself is a standard product, and by means of it we travel from town to town selling products which are messengers of internationalism.

You see, son, our business men are trading with the Germans all the time, regardless of politics. Standard Oil has a big deal regarding patent rights with I. G. Farben, the German dye trust, and so have the du Ponts. The A.E.G., the electrical trust, is in the same position, and I don't doubt that the Hermann Goring Stahlwerke have many such understandings in America.

As with arsenical candles and papers and fabrics, items become established in commerce before their dangers are recognized, ensuring that any attempt to curtail their use will be resisted by manufacturers … and fought or ignored by politicians ideologically opposed to government interference …' Gettler's

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.

C'è gente che pagherebbe per vendersi.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbor. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that we are immortal and carry on the business of life.

There] was a time when a lot of people came to the door. The milkman. The iceman. The Fuller Brush man. Encyclopedia salesmen. There was a sense of interaction with the world that started right at your own front doorstep.

You're selling your moose?" "I'm selling all of them.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin.

English is our ever-expanding neoliberal lingua franca, the consumer language of brand recognition and outsourced labor.

Instead of the heavy cruiser types with which it equipped itself, the German Navy might have been better served by a class of well-armoured, fast, diesel-driven light cruisers of optimum armament for commerce-raiding purposes. This was not given consideration.

Venetians prefer being merchants to philosophers.

Mercadores Quando Napoleão, por despeito, chamava «país de comerciantes» à Inglaterra, ressurgia nele o remoto antagonismo entre o fidalgo que paga com o seu sangue e o lojista que paga com o ouro o sangue dos outros.

Integrity is at the heart of commerce in the world in which we live. Honesty and integrity comprise the very underpinnings of society.....Indeed, the strength and safety of any organization-including the family-lie in the integrity of its members. Without personal integrity, there can be no confidence. Without confidence, there can be no prospect of permanent success.