Quotes About Commerce

When it's fair trade, it's blessed, and when it's unfair it's an injustice. That is the way of the world. Everyone wants something and they barter to get it.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

They say the mustard manufacturers get rich from the dabs of mustard people leave on their plates. And we'll get rich in the same way, darling. From selling the soldiers weapons they'll never use.

in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork. —The Merchant of Venice, act III, scene

Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce; but with respect to any other leading characteristic, I do not imagine that much has been unfolded.

Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce;

Working places and commerce must be mingled right in with residences if men, like the men who work on or near Hudson Street, for example, are to be around city children in daily life—men who are part of normal daily life, as opposed to men who put in an occasional playground appearance while they substitute for women or imitate the occupations of women.

The energy in the online commerce space is unprecedented.

Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.

There are lots of things where NAFTA can be updated and upgraded.

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.

What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.

Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

You can't go to the store and buy 'the Engagement Platform.'