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Quotes About Commerce

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.
~ Richard Condon
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
~ Herman Melville
Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
~ Plato, The Republic
Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.
~ George Washington
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
~ A. G. Gaston
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
~ Confucius
Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
~ Mel Brooks
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
~ Aphra Behn
When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.
~ Thomas Frank
Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
~ Georg Simmel
Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
~ Walter Sickert
I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.
~ John Malkovich
Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.
~ Muhammad Yunus
Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.
~ Karl Marx
Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
~ Kin Hubbard
Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money.
~ Tom Anderson
Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.
~ Earl Nightingale
I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it
~ Michael Hutchence
No money changed hands, of course.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?
~ Pat Morita
When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.
~ Richard Flanagan
Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market.
~ Murray Rothbard
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
~ Seth Godin