Quotes About Commerce

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.

I despise shopping and department stores.

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.

I don't like going into stores, I don't like the whole process of buying things.

When I started out, I was more focussed on being creative and wanting to do certain things I hadn't done before. That's great if you're doing fashion as a hobby. But when you want to sell out stores, you need to be very sure of the balance between commerce and art.

You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That's all gone now.

I bargain even in departmental stores to get special discount on their 'best prize!' I mean why should the corporate companies make all the money?

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know?

For trade to grow, India must make a strategic decision that you want to encourage interdependence and more openness and more trade-based economy.

Without exception, the brave new technologies of the twentieth century—free use of which was originally encouraged, for the sake of further invention and individual expression—eventually evolved into privately controlled industrial behemoths, the "old media" giants of the twenty-first, through which the flow and nature of content would be strictly controlled for reasons of commerce.

It is inconceivable," said Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, at the first national radio conference in 1922, "that we should allow so great a possibility for service, for news, for entertainment, for education, and for vital commercial purposes to be drowned in advertising chatter.

The elites sneer at commerce as tawdry, but it's what gives people what they want and need, and pays for everything else, including the luxury of art.

In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade generated expectations of progress.

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.

Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.

It is hard for anyone born after 1945 to imagine a world where the oceans - the global commons - are not open for trade and commerce or where freedom of navigation is imperiled.

Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them.

What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.

I don't really care about, Oh I really have to sell these things.

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.