Quotes About Commerce

The business of America is business, but it's about high-integrity business. It's about a business where you keep your word, where you make square deals.

I accept House of Fraser cannot have 500,000 square feet in Birmingham. Honestly, you would need an Uber to take you round. It's ridiculous.

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

The question is how much of your privacy and your convenience and your commerce do you want your nation's security apparatus to squeeze in order to keep you safe? And it is a choice that we have to make.

I have served in the Senate since December 2012 with seats on the Appropriations and Commerce committees and previously served as the lieutenant governor and in the state House. These positions provided me insights on Hawaii's priorities and how to effectively work with stakeholders to achieve meaningful results.

Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

We have enormous interests in the Asia Pacific. In addition to our economy, we need to secure our allies, protect our environment, promote peace and stability, ensure the free-flow of commerce, and stand up for human rights.

Hoover also loved new media the way Millennials do now. He was the first person to ever appear on television. As commerce secretary, he standardized the radio industry so businesses could harness its commercial value. He didn't e-mail my great-grandmother a marriage proposal - but he did cable her one, all the way from Australia.

Hoover's first emphasis was on the individual, the spark for all innovation and progress. This is a man who, while commerce secretary, standardized our modern economy, from brick sizes to bed sizes, so that housewives would not be frustrated when the sheets that arrived didn't fit.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

They agreed to pay 5000 lb of gold, 30,000 of silver, 3000 scarlet sheepskins (the Goths must have been a very well turned out army) and 3000 lb of pepper (they were already, of course, well seasoned).

a product is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes. The commerce of the living is not to be transferred unto the dead; it is not injustice to take that which none complains to lose, and no man is wronged where no man is possessor.