Quotes About Commerce

On subsequent voyages, Portuguese ships brought gold, animal hides, elephant tusks—and slaves.

make a treaty of peace or commerce with the king or lord of that land" before he attempted to load the goods onto his ships.

there he replenished his supplies and sailed farther east to establish an ocean route to India.

The Spice Islands were too valuable to entrust to the luck and skill of a single explorer.

Serrão carefully cultivated Ternate's small ruling class, especially its king, and tried to promote trade between Ternate and Portugal

The global spice trade underwent an upheaval in 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks

routes between Asia and Europe were severed. The prospect of establishing a spice trade via an ocean route opened up

new economic possibilities for any European nation able to master the seas.

The lure of spices impelled sober, cautious financiers to back highly risky expeditions to unknown parts of the globe

rather than establishing their own foreign trading empires.

for the merchants and chandlers of the Canaries, practiced

Indeed, "All great periods of culture have been periods of political decline." The energy required for politics on a large scale, or in economy, or in universal commerce, or in parliamentarism, or in military interest, usually reduces the level of culture of a people.

Stop me and buy one.

What is art? Prostitution.

There is no weather in malls.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Sixpennorth of halfpence?

took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellow-tradesman whom he stopped in

Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.

The Armenians are a people who possess excellent hearts, and whose manners are mild and civil. They are deep politicians, and acquire great riches by commerce." Nothing had changed in two hundred years, except that the Armenians had endured intolerable suffering and lost a large part of their homeland, and their people, in Turkey.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

The society with lots of open disagreement and social conflict is the one surging with power in art, science, commerce, constructive social reform, and (most of all) religious revival; the hushed-up society where everyone is afraid to say what he thinks is on the brink of violence and collapse.

Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline.