Quotes About Commerce

One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.

Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were the big, dominant corporations of the day, and that they would disrupt them and make them less powerful, but they could never envision that Amazon would overtake them all.

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

Everyone knew that Syrians were 'natural businessmen, and the greediest of mortals'.

Zijn ambtswoning lag om de hoek, in de Pelikaanstraat. Niet ver van onze diamantbeurs, die ondanks alle krijgsperikelen en gevluchte slijpers toch aan bedrijvigheid leek te herwinnen. Het steentje. Zo noemen wij, met onze kluchtige voorliefde voor verkleinwoorden, de industrie die onze stad al eeuwen onderstut en opstuwt. Zolang het steentje draait, draait de wereld rond. En zolang dat gebeurt, komt diezelfde wereld bij ons haar edelstenen kopen, klieven en verkopen.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the British love of tea.

The technological success of the telegraph failed to drive revenue simply because Americans could not imagine how they could benefit from the breakthrough.

So, when they say Sugar Free what they are really saying is that you don't pay extra for the sugar!

A large part of what big companies pay extra for is the cost of selling expensive things to them.

The advantage of a medium of exchange is that it makes trade work. The disadvantage is that it tends to obscure what trade really means.

The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become store-bought ones.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

If it sells, it's art.

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

What is art? Prostitution.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

Capitalism is an art form.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.